Politics as Usual

I’ve never been big into politics, which is something I’ve been scolded for by my elders and even my peers for most of my life. My parents have pretty much been labeled “independents” throughout their extremely weak political careers. Politics has hardly been a staple of conversation at the dinner table growing up, so perhaps that is why my interest has never been there to begin with.

I’m not sorry I don’t care too much – well, that’s the wrong way to put it. I do care about the well being of the country and the people that populate it and the policies that run it. I want to see things end up successful. But I just can’t trust the politicians of this world because from what I’ve gathered, they have not given me much to trust in.

Everyone, from the politician to the president to the cable networks has a personal agenda to make their side more appealing than the other. Instead of working together as a “united” country the politicians continue to bash one party while praising their own decisions.

For the last eight years George Bush has been classified as the devil. Some of the criticism has been warranted while some of it has been a bit over the top. Overall the guy was just a terrible speaker with the ability to convey an idea to the general audience with the smoothness and accuracy of a six year old learning the ABC’s for the first time. The general impression given by Bush was a hard one to ignore. Add to that the fact that he seemed to act on “hunches” rather than with logic reason and it’s no wonder so many people questioned the way he ran office.

Of course, the Republicans are going to hail him as perfect and the Democrats want him banished from earth to rot in the depths of hell.

And then you have Obama.

Obama is attempting to bring life back to the economy with stimulus after stimulus. The last four months the stock market has been booming – I’ve even seen a 17 percent gain on my investments. The Democrats are going wild, feeling as though the light has been shined by the messiah and life will return to normal.

The Republics hang on to the idea that Obama is bankrupting America or the fact that while the market is improving, job losses continue to pile up in record numbers.

And then the Democrats fire back insisting that the market’s collapse was brought on the Bush Administration.

Or – does anyone remember the so-called “Weapons of Mass Destruction?”
And then the Republicans will criticize Obama’s reformed healthcare plan. They will preach socialism.

And the Democrats will come back … and so forth.

It’s all a sick game of he said-she said. It’s all about greed and influence and manipulation. Nobody cares about the issues – especially the youth vote. Many of those who voted for Obama didn’t give two hoots about his policy. They simply listened to what they were told – McCain is old, Palin is stupid, and Republicans like George Bush ruined the country.

Obama was marketed as the Black Jesus – the BLACK vote was finally going to count. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King’s contributions were even put on par with the possibility of a BLACK president taking office. It was an issue of race and culture and people listened. Obama was the popular vote. Just ask any number of celebrities that endorsed his every move. The press was full of praise. Up until his election CNN constantly brought the death toll of Iraq soldiers’ to the lime light of the program. As soon as he was elected that has since been muffled.

Coincidence?

Back when Bush was running for office in 2000 the Republicans were doing the same thing the Democrats did. They were criticizing Clinton and his NAFTA agreement. They were lambasting Al Gore and his “green thumb.” They spoke about Bush’s family values and his father’s experience, yadee, yadee, yah.

The interesting thing I’ve noticed is that once the opposite party gets elected the opposing team spends every ounce of energy destroying every decision that is made by the new administration.
Is this democracy? What exactly is America fighting for?

I don’t know the answer and I recon I won’t get the answer with Obama, Bush, or John Doe.
I’ve only come to one conclusion when it comes to politics.

Democrats got it all wrong.

Republicans got it all wrong.

The wool has been pulled over the sheep’s eyes.

We will continue to do our jobs, and ‘baaaah’ with the pride of USA.

Hooray.