If I were elected president
If I were elected president, I would hate to never know whether or not I had earned it. It would eat me up inside for four to eight years, and for the rest of my life, knowing that so many people voted for me based on the color of my skin or on the eloquence of my speeches, and not because they felt I was the best person for the job.
We’ve all heard the reports of left wing radical political machines operating on a massive scale unlike anything we’ve experienced before in the history of our country. Hundreds of millions of dollars were raised. Almost every major media outlet in the country was undeniably biased. Yet, somehow President Elect Barack Obama still just barely won the popular vote.
Barack Obama ran on two basic principles:
- Instilling Hope for Change in people.
- Running against President Bush.
Most of his followers have no clue what he stands for. If people voted for him because they agreed he would make the best president based on what he would specifically do in office and on his views on the issues, we could then say that we showed why America is the greatest nation in the world. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case.
Most of Obama’s campaign rhetoric was running against the incumbent, who wasn’t even up for re-election. For over 20 years, McCain has served this country in the senate, and has been ridiculed by most members of the republican party for being too leftist, and for not helping tow the party line. In the last nine months, McCain’s votes have coincided with the current president’s policies, leading to Obama accusing him of being the same as Bush. He charged that a vote for McCain was a vote for four more years of the same. Not only is this not even remotely resembling anything accurate in reality, since McCain is nothing like President Bush, this assertion is completely ignorant of the involvement that the US Congress, not President Bush, had in our current state.
As an American, I hope Senator Obama turns out to be a great president. I hope that our congress, saturated with democrats, is able to do what is best for America. For 8 years, we’ve been blessed with a patriotic American in the office of President who ignored public opinion, and did what he felt in his heart was in the best interest of our country. Senator Obama campaigned that he would consult with the American population in making his decisions. I know this sounds great, but a populist government is not exactly conducive to having an effective government. The day a president makes decisions based on public opinion is the day he no longer needs to be president.
The democrats now carry a major burden. The are now the ruling party of the legislative and executive branches of our government. Let us hope that they will act on this responsibility wisely, and in the best interest of our country. Let us have faith the ruling democrats will remember their job is not to decide what to take from us, or even what to give to us. They need to know they have been elected to serve us.
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