Three major things bothered me about this article. One, the idea that some people will support Obama come hell or high water. Most of the people on this blog will love Bush regardless of what he did or didn’t do. Right or wrong, there is always the fringe die-hards who will support their “team” no matter what they do. It’s not about the fringe, it needs to be about the middle.
Second is the “shape-shifting” attributed to Obama, given McCain. ALL politicians lie to get our votes…it’s always been the way of the world (and probably the main fault with a 2 party system). McCain shape-shifted by going to the religious right as if all of a sudden he had seen the light. Why did he go to Liberty college after denouncing its leader a short-time before? Because he was shape-shifting.
Third, the talk of cognitive disonance and patriotism. We were called unpatriotic for years for disagreeing with Bush, but now the author would seem to condone speaking out against the President if you felt it was the right thing to do. Please, pick a side on the issue! I never felt bad about speaking about Bush, and I won’t about Obama either. So, speaking of which, on to cognitive disonance. While I am one of the few who is not yet ready to write the history of the Obama presidency, I have grave concerns about some of his recent choices. The bailout bill, while not his fault, is not structured the way he said it would be and the rest of the yearly budget is still to full of pork. Even though “only” 60% of it is democratic pork, he made a promise, and simply pushing that promise to next years budget makes me a little ill. I’m sure there will be more that I won’t like about Obama, and I’ll be sure to say so, but you all wouldn’t have wanted me to throw Ronnie or any other republican president under the bus after 2 months, so I’m sure you’ll keep your comments to what he has done so far…., right?
Oh, and one more small point. I don’t want Obama to do well because he is the first black president. I want him to do well because he is our president and we need him to do well. He doesn’t have to do well on every initiative that Rush doesn’t care for, but on the balance, the country needs to be in a much better place in a few years when I have to vote again.
Jack
So, since I haven’t seen many republicans tell me what was wrong with Bush, I’ll take credit for being the Dem who dispelled the myth of cognitive dissonance on our side.
