ran 2.6 miles
Barack Obama has had a turbulent and accordingly speculative year of criticism from an American public majority that does not want his “Change”. While much news media has proven they support his sensationalized ideas of arguable progress, American voters feel otherwise and have shown it. Between the deafening volumes of Tea party organizations across the country who long for the wisdom of their American Constitution and the clear risk that this great nation may be on the precipice of detrimental change and decades of reconstruction towards cleaning up the proverbial oil spill of crippling legislation seeped across America’s landscape in the form of liberal ideas and an unaccepted Congressional body, in general, it requires little common sense to see how dire it is right now to return to our Constitution and to embrace the original principles that got us to where we are.
“This is what change looks like,” Barack Obama proudly said upon the signing of his health care bill not so long ago. Numerous states are rushing to the courts arguing it is unconstitutional to force American citizens to pay for nationalized health care. I’m no Judge so it is not necessarily my place to judge, but I am an American citizen and our nation has been fighting communism, or progressive ideas, as they now call it, for a very long time, yet our government is socializing health care.
That is what “Change” looks like. Change. It is such an arbitrary word. It is as unoriginal, uncreative, and just arbitrary enough that I would be willing to bet that the Republican candidate that finally emerges, running against Barack Obama, will also run on the same campaign slogan, further rendering the progress of this country to the mentality of a schoolyard fight. Be that as it may, here are some of Barack Obama’s achievements, depending upon which side of the aisle you are on, for the past year:
January---Ted Kennedy, a long time Senator of Massachusetts passes away, leaving a vacated seat procured by one Scott Brown, a republican.
February---Unemployment at 9.7%.
March---Congress approval rating is at 22%.
April---Unemployment at 9.9%.
May---The ramifications of the failed blowout preventer on the Horizon wreak havoc on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. An indefinite moratorium on drilling is established, leading to layoffs and furloughs across the southern coastal states.
June--- Barack Obam’s handling of the oil spill is polled and compared to George Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina.
July---The Obama administration deemed this time period the “Recovery Summer”.
August---Unemployment at 9.6%. Congress approval rating is at 24%.
September---In one of the year’s biggest upsets, Joe Miller, backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea party, defeated GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, adding her to a handful of incumbents that Americans were fed up with.
October---Campaigning for reelection, any senators or representatives who campaigned on health care reform were doing so by disassociating themselves from its being passed.
November---Unemployment at 9.8%. Conservatives reclaimed the majority in the House, diminished the majority in the Senate, and claimed an overwhelming amount of Governorships.
December---Obama likens Republicans to hostage-takers in a weak effort to save face for the bed he has made for himself and now has to sleep in.
1,803.3 miles to go.
Barack Obama has had a turbulent and accordingly speculative year of criticism from an American public majority that does not want his “Change”. While much news media has proven they support his sensationalized ideas of arguable progress, American voters feel otherwise and have shown it. Between the deafening volumes of Tea party organizations across the country who long for the wisdom of their American Constitution and the clear risk that this great nation may be on the precipice of detrimental change and decades of reconstruction towards cleaning up the proverbial oil spill of crippling legislation seeped across America’s landscape in the form of liberal ideas and an unaccepted Congressional body, in general, it requires little common sense to see how dire it is right now to return to our Constitution and to embrace the original principles that got us to where we are.
“This is what change looks like,” Barack Obama proudly said upon the signing of his health care bill not so long ago. Numerous states are rushing to the courts arguing it is unconstitutional to force American citizens to pay for nationalized health care. I’m no Judge so it is not necessarily my place to judge, but I am an American citizen and our nation has been fighting communism, or progressive ideas, as they now call it, for a very long time, yet our government is socializing health care.
That is what “Change” looks like. Change. It is such an arbitrary word. It is as unoriginal, uncreative, and just arbitrary enough that I would be willing to bet that the Republican candidate that finally emerges, running against Barack Obama, will also run on the same campaign slogan, further rendering the progress of this country to the mentality of a schoolyard fight. Be that as it may, here are some of Barack Obama’s achievements, depending upon which side of the aisle you are on, for the past year:
January---Ted Kennedy, a long time Senator of Massachusetts passes away, leaving a vacated seat procured by one Scott Brown, a republican.
February---Unemployment at 9.7%.
March---Congress approval rating is at 22%.
April---Unemployment at 9.9%.
May---The ramifications of the failed blowout preventer on the Horizon wreak havoc on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. An indefinite moratorium on drilling is established, leading to layoffs and furloughs across the southern coastal states.
June--- Barack Obam’s handling of the oil spill is polled and compared to George Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina.
July---The Obama administration deemed this time period the “Recovery Summer”.
August---Unemployment at 9.6%. Congress approval rating is at 24%.
September---In one of the year’s biggest upsets, Joe Miller, backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea party, defeated GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, adding her to a handful of incumbents that Americans were fed up with.
October---Campaigning for reelection, any senators or representatives who campaigned on health care reform were doing so by disassociating themselves from its being passed.
November---Unemployment at 9.8%. Conservatives reclaimed the majority in the House, diminished the majority in the Senate, and claimed an overwhelming amount of Governorships.
December---Obama likens Republicans to hostage-takers in a weak effort to save face for the bed he has made for himself and now has to sleep in.
1,803.3 miles to go.
