Change We Can't Believe In

Many things have changed since the beginning of this summer. Hillary Clinton has bowed out of the race for the White House, John McCain has released his 70-page “I am well” medical report, and Jesse Jackson, the self proclaimed voice of blacks in America, has revealed himself to be the lowest form of creatures that inhabit the earth.

What else? I have watched as 80,000 people assemble to catch a glimpse of a Harvard-educated community organizer, whose command of the queen’s language is beyond enviable. I have watched women in their 50s cry upon seeing him, like they were teenage girls at a Jonas Brothers concert. I have watched young adults faint because they are so overwhelmed by his immaculate presence. Hundreds of his followers have adapted his name. Bagels in Palestine are named after him. Millions around the world pray for an opportunity to be graced by his presence. Some believe that he may even have the cures for cancer, aids, erectile dysfunction, starvation, infant mortality, and all forms of bigotry. His ability to wow people has transcended race, gender, socio-economic classes, religion and national borders.

No. I am not talking about the second coming of Christ, and I am not talking about the Pope. I am not talking about Elvis emerging from 31 years of hiding. I am talking about Barack H. Obama, candidate for the Presidency of These United States of America.

Barack Obama is one of the most charismatic men that I have ever seen or read about, at least while he has a teleprompter to read from. Take away the teleprompter, and his fall from grace begins. This may be one of the reasons why his interviews are so few, and far between.

Obama has single-handedly reconstructed the demographics of the popular vote. He has already been embraced by Europeans, and Middle Easterners as the future leader of the United States. Over 200,000 people gathered today in Berlin to catch a glimpse of the man that represents CHANGE. By most accounts, he is an emperor awaiting his coronation.

How has the community organizer, turned politician emerged as a force so great? How has a presidential candidate transformed himself into a pop icon? But what does Barack Obama have to offer? Where will he take us?

Well, Senator Obama has obliterated the competition by promising HOPE, and CHANGE to the masses. This suave offspring of the corrupt Chicago political system has the masses hoping that when he becomes president, there will be universal healthcare, cheaper education, zero pollution, and goodwill towards the USA.

In the classic movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s character said “Hope can be a dangerous thing”? Why? Well, at the intersection of hope and disappointment, lies despair.

Senator Obama’s socialist rhetoric is far from new, and therefore does not represent change. It has been peddled to the masses by the far left since the 1960s. Income redistribution and universal healthcare are critical parts of a failed system known to the world as socialism. America is the greatest country in the world because of freedom, and capitalism. Capitalism drives innovation and ingenuity, and these two traits are the lifeblood of America.
However, in a desperate attempt to depart from what most people perceive as the failings of George W, and the Republican Party, we run the risk of mortgaging our country’s prosperity, and security by electing Barack Obama president.

Obama has proposed $800 Billion in new social programs. Even if we were not facing a $9.5 Trillion deficit, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, such irresponsible spending would not be sustainable. Further, Obama did not support the surge, and has simply refused to admit that he was wrong on Iraq. But, we have to admire his brilliance. He has taken George W.’s formula of the surge, and is insisting that it be applied to the war in Afghanistan.

The race for the White House is not a beauty pageant, and it is not the tour of a multi-platinum pop artist flying to D.C. The upcoming presidential election, like all before them, has real consequences. Real people will face despair when a Pres. Obama is not able to effect the “CHANGE” that he promised them. Real Americans will become more vulnerable to foreign attacks, because of his ever shifting international policies of appeasement that are as solid as jell-o nailed to a wall. Sen. Obama is right. He does represent change. Change from one position to another.

That, my friends, is NOT change that we can believe in.

BOOM M. Wilson