Obama Has A Mandate For His Radical Policies

Here's where you're wrong ...

The average person in America has a memory about as long as the media wants it to be. Obama was not a superstar throughout this entire last election. Obama barely squeaked by Hillary during the Democratic Primary. That debacle rocked on until June 2008 with no clear winner. Then, during the general election, he and McCain bounced back and forth in the polls until September. In fact, McCain was ahead in many polls in early September.

Then ... the banks collapsed and the already slow economy went completely to sh#t. This was the real turning point for Obama. People were scared and looking for a way out. McCain, up to that point, had abandoned whatever moderate viewpoints he once had and was looking a lot like a Dubya clone. He kind of went off the deep end to the right, which pissed off a lot of moderates and independents who had backed him up to that point. He was also hampered by his ridiculous choice for VP candidate. The conservative media seemed to love her, but I've yet to meet an intelligent conservative that liked her. Don't get me wrong. I'd love to stuff dollars into Palin's g-string, but that loopy b#tch has no business anywhere near the White House. If the Republican Party continues to rally around her (as it seems they're doing) and picks her as their 2012 candidate, get ready for for 7 more years of Obama.

So, what does McCain do when the banks collapse? He runs back to Washington and helps push through that ridiculous stimulus package, successfully pissing off the rest of the independents and conservatives who hadn't abandoned the guy already. When it was time to vote, I don't know a single person who was excited to vote for McCain. Many I know didn't vote at all. The rest voted apathetically, just hoping there was some way to keep Obama out of the White House.

The interesting thing to point out here is that, even with Palin and his dramatic shift to the right, McCain was still slightly ahead in early September. There were no chants for Obama the superstar at that time. The bank collapse pushed people over the edge, there was a knee jerk reaction that it was George W's fault, and McCain looked an awful lot like George W. Obama was the only person offering a dramatic change so many jumped on the bandwagon and started treating him like the golden child. It's really that simple.

People were tired. We'd had 8 years of a bunch of idiot Republicans ruining the country (well, 6 to be fair since they got their a%s handed to them in the 2006 elections). The Gingrich/Dole Republicans of 1994-2000 successfully balanced the federal budget and generally had a good run in the 90s. It was tapering off at the end of the Clinton era, but this manageable situation was handed to George W in 2000. He had the White House and Congress for 6 years and proceeded to loot our coffers worse than, even, any Democrat had in history (this is a topic for another day). We had a war still going on that everyone was tired of and the worst economic crisis we'd faced since the Great Depression. The Republican nominee was a weak one, and Republican turnout at the polls dropped from 2004 levels to only 28.7% because they hated their candidate. The liberal media was salivating on itself to give praise to Obama, and I'm sure there was much infighting among the top networks about who'd get to take him his slippers each morning. Given all this ... Obama won only by a whopping 7%. This guy should have won by a landslide. Given the same situation and the amount of money Obama spent on the election (much of it obtained illegally from foreign entities ... again, another topic), I think I could have won by a landslide; and there are pictures of me in college dressed as the bumblebee from Blind Melon's "No Rain" video that would have been plastered all over MSNBC, I'm sure.

This is/was not a mandate, ladies and gentlemen. This was a bunch of people pissed off at George W. Bush, a bunch of people pissed off at a Republican Congress that spent money like Democrats, a bunch of people pissed off at a war we should have already been rid of (and arguably should have never started), collectively voting (or staying home) to punish the Republican Party.

If Obama continues to push his radical agenda thinking he has some sort of mandate, I can only hope the country wakes up and balances out Congress in 2010. If not, we are about to repeat some mistakes that many countries have made before us. What an embarrassing way to weaken our country.