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Luigi rants on where the country will go under President Obama

(by Luigi Luciano - November 13, 2008)

I thought about this election and writing a eulogy. But then I said, although I firmly believe that with Obama’s election our country will go down hill fast, I wanted to see how could this happen?

What caused a win for who was clearly the least experienced candidate?

There were a lot of issues that lead to this. Some by fate others by circumstance. Fate being that this great land is not supposed to last forever and maybe this is just the beginning of the end for the United States.

Other issues are race and youth. When people were talking about Obama being an African American and people not voting for him because of his color it was actually the other way around. People voted for him because of his color. First off all there is never enough credit given to the American people. Yes there are racists in the country and plenty of them. But there are also people like myself who could care less about someone’s color but care about what they represent.

As with most elections people vote on what they think will help them the most. This election was a little different. Obama ran on change for America. The youth loved the message. After all they went or go to colleges where liberal professors teach them about the evil America while collecting paychecks from the taxes of hard working people. The kids are young, not really in a career yet so they have no idea how much they are already paying in taxes or what the really important issues are. The youth voted for change, without really understanding what Obama’s plan is. They were caught up in the history making election of an African American. First off Obama is only 50% black and 50% white. Secondly why do we make such a big deal in this country about a persons color or gender? Shouldn’t the qualifications be looked at when electing someone? Martin Luther King died for the rights of the blacks. Even he would not be thrilled with the fact that someone gets elected because of his color not because of his qualifications.

In this case it was clear Obama won not because he was better qualified but because people where more interested is making history rather than the right decision.

Reading the blogs out there I ran across some interesting ones. This one was from MTV a younger group who feels the same way.

“The only reason he was elected is because there are a bunch of uninformed voters. I can personally say that I have talked to at least 50 people at my college who said they were voting for Obama, and all of them could not name me 3 of his political views!!!!!!! Now I'm sure that this is true all over the country, and that is why not everyone should be able to vote. I don’t know how to fix it but uninformed voters should not be able to vote because they are always going to vote based on how the candidate looks, talks, and by the color of his skin. We don't need a president who was voted in because of his physical characteristics we need one that can fix the country when needed and run the country when everything is good. This election reminds me a lot of High school student council, a popularity contest. If you were good looking and people like you got in, or if you were on the football team, you were voted for. Americans need to step it up and make sure that they are informed before they vote! But I am open minded, and am interested in seeing what our new president will accomplish.”

To back up that point even further I think it was Howard Stern who sent a guy out on the streets of Harlem and asked who people were voting for.

The majority said Obama and that is fine. The follow up questions were the ones that really bothered me. He then asked what they thought of Sarah Palin as Obama’s running mate. The majority said she was a great choice. The next question was even better. The guy ran through the positions and again the majority said they agreed with Obama's plans. The only problem was that the positions the guy told them were all John McCain’s. Why were these people voting? Not based on issues. They didn’t even have a clue of what Obama stands for.

As voters we all are suppose to look at what can better the country. In most cases it comes down to selfishness and what will be better for me.

But listening to Obama there was nothing that impressed me other than his ability as a great speaker. But we must also remember that Hitler was a great speaker as well and look at how that ended up.

The bottom line here is that Obama will be our new president. My hope is that he will do a good job and help this country. Do I think he will? Not at all.

Until he is sworn in he will say all the right things to make it seem that he can appeal to both parties. He will tell us that he will reach out to all Americans to improve our country. Once sworn in he will do as he wants. He is the most liberal Senator in our history. Anyone who thinks that will suddenly change when he is sworn is fooling themselves. But we should still be respectful and can disagree without resorting to the name calling that the Democrats have been doing for the past 8 years.

Here are my predictions that I hope and pray I am totally wrong.

We will have a huge crisis whether it is here or somewhere else. Obama will weaken our military and that will weaken this country making us venerable to attacks.

Our courts will have Liberal judges appointed and most of the laws that have kept us safe and free from attacks over the past 8 years will be overturned.

Socialism will prevail. The government will get more involved in businesses as well as socialize health care.

They will not allow for more drilling in this country and prices will go back up for gas.

Change will come but it will not be what they thought how could it be?

What the geniuses forgot who voted for “change” is that we still have the same Democratic liberal controlled Congress and Senate which has a lower approval rating than the President they wanted out of office.

To sum it up the state of this country and the direction it is headed I will quote Winston Churchill when he said. “If you’re under 40 and a liberal you have no heart if you are over 40 and a liberal you have no brain.”

God help America.