Pandering to the voters
admin / Category: PoliticsI am a fan of George W. Bush. I don’t agree with everything that he has done, I don’t even know if I agree with most of the things he has done; it’s at least a 50-50 split, and if you agree with a polition 50% of the time, you might as well say that you are a fan of his/hers and support them. But one thing that I admire about Bush is that he sticks to his guns. He doesn’t waiver when it comes on making decisions; he does what he thinks is best for the country. The same can’t be said for Obama. Yesterday he said that he is for faith based groups being funded by government money; BUT those faith based groups can’t descriminate people by not hiring someone because they don’t agree with their values. For example; a Catholic organization can’t deny someone employment to someone because they disagree with one of the major beliefs of the faith. Then, if this is the case, you might as well not believe in faith-based funding because not many religous groups will hire someone who doesn’t believe in their core values.
Then today, Mr. Obama exclaimed that his trip to Iraq may change his policy on the Iraq war. There are two things to think about this. First of all, how can someone, especially a politician, be so against the war without fully knowing what’s going on over there, or talking to anyone in control. He’s been drumbing the party line, and pandering to special interest groups who have been against the war the whole time, and who have depended on him to end the war the day after his inaugeration. But now he’s afraid to go over and face the troops over in Iraq, and see that good is actually being done over there; that lives are being changed for the positive. He’s afraid to go over there and meet the troops and say good job, but we’ll be out of here in February of 2009, and leave it in the hands of the unstable Iraqi government. He wants to go over there with a face that says “If possitive things are happening, then we’ll keep troops over there, and remove them slower than I anticipated.” Second, it will be interested what liberal interest groups are going to say about this and how he’s going to handle their objections. Is he going to become two-faced?
Right now, it looks like Obama is going to be the type of president that changes his ideas and agendas faster and more often than he changes his underwear. We don’t need that type of president now!