More of the same

2008 was a frustrating year for Conservatives! So many people were in love with then canidate Obama that it was hard for them to focus on the issues. My Liberal friend kept marveling about how clean a campaign it was and as much as I wanted to counter her the general election campaign he ran was pretty clean(of coarse it did not hurt that the mainstream media had a crush on him the entire campaign but that's another story.

I relized that the rhetoric being used was so inspiring it caused young people that were inexperienced with politics to ignore whatever good sense they had and believe that the president would actually usher in the new kind of politics that he campaigned on

Now, two short years later people are waking up to the fact that politics have not changed and this president lies just like all the the rest The latest example a few weeks ago during a campaign the President alluded to the possibility that foreign money is influencing our elections, What he was referring to was the chamber of Congress which has been very critical of this administration and it's policy's spending money to defeat Democrats. Now any huge organization has overseas affiliates and they do pay dues. However organizations are required to separate the money they receive from overseas from money raised from overseas. These comapany's are not allowed to use any raised from overseas on the election. The President raised the possibility that the Chamber of Congress was acting illegally. When asked to provide proof of this alligation the President's spokesmen said, "Can you prove there not. So it's up to your opponents to disprove a negative! that's the definition of negative campaigning. The president's spokesmen then desperate to regain the high ground said well they should provide a list of who is giving from overseas, that's a debate worth having but can we have the lists from the overseas unions that contribute to you too, after all what's good for the President is good for his opponents too.
The interviewer even said the president's original comments were peanuts and other members of the mainstream media know that the charge of foreign money influencing our elections from the US Chamber of Congress was a baseless charge.
When the President said this some got mad not me upon reflection it made me happy because he proved he's no longer above the frey, no longer just about hope. The President proved in some ways he like every other politician and represents more of the same.
The president may be a good man but his comment represent something that more and more people are realizing his day to day reality no longer lives up to his lofty campaign speeches.

Tea party thoughts

Politics is an art not a science but it does have some scientific principles that everyone agrees with one is when you lose you must either weight for the other side to mess up or your side has to get more voters.
What happens in wave elections is the Party in power does enough to make people mad that the American public comes out passionately to support the party out of power. It happened it 2008 people that had never voted or rarely vote voted for the new President with the funny name It also happened in 2006 and 2004 because a new majority disliked President Bush's handling of the Iraq war. In 2004 new people voted for President Bush because they approved of his handling of the War on Terror and disliked the democratic platform on the social issues of the day such as gay marriage and Partial birth Abortion. People vote when they are frustrated and angry about the country.
The tea party started started do to anger over the bailout of the banks something that started in the Bush administration and had nothing what so ever with race. It continued with the bailout of Gm and Chrysler. The Tea Party then came to a full boil over the Health Care reform because they felt that the President was ignoring the will of the people.
Now I'm no expert but wasn't that the same way most Liberals felt about President Bush in 2008. Now to be fair some people in the Tea party are bigoted against the President because of his race, is that the reason for the tea party, No way because the same people that were against Bill Clinton's Health Care plan were and are against this current incarnation. Nobody suggested racism as the primary reason for opposition in 1994. Why mention it now Well we know why the President is black, and it's easier for people to demagogue the opposition by calling it names then to actually engage in dialogue about the issue. To his credit the President isn't doing this but his friends are and that by it's very nature is also racist.
Are there some racists in the tea Party yes is that the majority of tea party sentiment, no because the Tea Party is frustrated at all government excesses and not just those committed by the current President. Are there bad people in every organization yes, but that doesn't mean that the tea party itself is bad because it causes people to think about the Constitution and the excess of government as a whole. That like it or not is what political activism is all about!