I have several online friends who recently suddenly became filled with HOPE. This HOPE centered around the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of President of the United States. Their sheer joy and overflowing gushing of HOPE for CHANGE and YES WE CAN drives me crazy. I have asked them to define that HOPE. Define that CHANGE. So I got poems and dictionary definitions of hope and change. But that isn't what I meant ....
One of today's headlines in Yahoo is Today people are More Optimistic than they were yesterday .... and I mean that LITERALLY .... today Jan. 21st, 2009 people are more optimistic than they were yesterday Jan. 20th, 2009. And the single biggest thing that has changed in that 24 hour period is that George W. Bush was President of the United States of America until Noon EST yesterday.
I guess my BIGGEST question and the thing that grates against me the most is ....
.... where was that optimism 3 years ago .... where was the hope 3 years ago ... why is all the optimism and hope joyfully being released with the election of this one man? Why does all this hope and joy and optimism hinge on HIM? And if that doesn't resemble worshipping a man, what does?
I am also an optimist .... and have felt extremely optimistic for the past ... well ... almost 49 years (and the past 8 years were especially kind to me) .... I am still VERY optimistic of my life and my personal happiness (because those things depend on ME and I believe in ME) .... but I am now VERY afraid of what Pelosi and her ilk will now do to the United States of America because the one person who did his best to keep her in check and balanced is now gone. And the person who replaced him is very fond of socialist and communist beliefs and I believe that Pelosi now believes that she is going to be able to do and pass anything ... and that scares me ...
I also believe that no one has been aware of the danger the US has fought off in the past 8 years and BUSH's legacy of keeping us safe since 9/11 is probably WAY bigger than anyone can imagine. I believe that not only have we been protected from terrorist attacks, but we have also been protected from even the knowledge of what has been planned, attempted, and thwarted. I believe that when Biden and Obama became privy to much of this information during the elections, THAT was when Biden let slip that something bad will happen early in the days of an Obama Presidency. And that we will not be pleased with Obama's response to the crisis. I really did not like hearing him say that .... and I really do not look forward to seeing his predictions played out.
I believe Obama is going to age greatly in then next few months when he fully begins to realize the immmensity of the burden that Bush and Chaney carried the past 8 years.
And I am FURIOUS with Pelosi for wanting Bush and Chaney to now be arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity. I am FURIOUS with the people who have cursed BUSH for the past 8 years. I an FURIOUS with the people who believe that we all can finally unite and get along but only on THEIR terms. That isn't Unity.
So when I read of people suddenly being filled with HOPE, my question is HOPE FOR WHAT??? And the response has been Hope for CHANGE .... and my question is CHANGE to WHAT? That is what I mean when I am asking for definition. And the response is often "I don't care ... just change from Bush being in office."
And I honor and respect George W. Bush for bearing that hatred from so many people with such simple class. Only he knows the size of the burden he has carried .... and now Obama will begin to realize, and hopefully come to respect, the man whose position he has taken. Sadly .... most Obama followers never will.
I have been predicting since the election that on Jan. 21st the Markets will begin to improve .... the threat of depression will pass .... and the world will be filled with Butterflies and Rainbows and Bunnies. I HOPE I am right!! On the other hand .... if I am right .... it makes me wonder how much of all of this was manipuated by the media? Either the Crisis of 2008 or the Optimism beginning on Jan. 21st of 2009?
((It's easy ... NOTE a recent news story ... "The number of people who are losing their homes to foreclosure has DOUBLED in this time of economic crisis!!" (True .... the number went from 3% to 6% of people being forced into foreclosure.) But what can the new post Jan. 21st headline be? "Under the leadership of Barack Obama 94% of all homeowners in the United States have been able to hold on to their homes!!! Many able to refinance at lower interest rates saving them even more money!!"))
See .... Butterflies and Rainbows and Bunnies ....
HOPE for CHANGE that WE CAN BELIEVE IN .... YES WE CAN ....
I HOPE that Obama is successful. THAT is HOPE defined. I have HOPE that George and Laura can now relax into a retirement without Pelosi and her ilk trying to have them arrested. THAT is HOPE defined.
But I am no more filled with HOPE now than I was in 2001 or 2003 or 2005 or any other time in my past. I am not pinning my HOPE to one man. And I HOPE you aren't either.
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