Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, August 31, 2009 2:11:45 PM
We need to all write our beloved president and thank him for what he has been able to accomplish in his first 6 months of office. Here we were (me included) in America slowly being boiled alive like the proverbial frogs in a pot of hot water. Both parties were slowly ratcheting up the spending and growing the federal governments powers while we were completely unaware. We were (at least we thought we were) happy to just do our "civic thing" and go an press a button for his senator or congressman every 4 or 6 years and then go on living our own lives unaware as to what was REALLY happening in DC. We may have complained from time to time and written a letter to the editor or to our congressman, but as long as it didn't cause us to take action our government didn't have to worry about what we thought of them.
Then came along President Obama who in his own arrogance and impatience decides now is the time to turn the heat from medium to high as his assessment was that the American people were "ready for change" (I think that is code word for "dead"). But we were not "dead" but were lying motionless on the bottom of the pot and doing nothing. Now we have realized that someone is trying to kill us and we are desperately trying to jump out to save ourselves. If it had not been for Obama, we may have never realized. Had he taken the patient route that all the other previous presidents had taken nothing would have changed and the water temperature could have been raised by a couple of degrees.
Now there is nothing he can do. Turning down the heat will not change our view of our predicament. We have been allerted now and we are not going back into that pot again. Obama's views and friends which were ignored during the election are being more thoroughly examined and studied. The mainstream media may still be his friend (probably always will be), but their influence on our country is waining quickly (who cares how many stations GE controls if nobody watches them). People are confronting their "tax masters" and demanding answers in town halls ( I am going to my first one tomorrow at Granite Bay High School). People are gathering for tea parties across America and forming 912 groups to "organize" (yes TWO can play that THAT game Mr. Obama).
Thank you Mr President for waking us up! Keep up the good work you are doing!