With Change comes Responsibility

I did not want Barak Obama to be elected, that being said I hope he is hugely successful. After all we still need to live in this country. Although, if things get really bad us Texans can say vaya con dios and part ways friendly. I doubt that would ever happen but it is nice to have that as a possible exit strategy.

Now Obama must handle the financial crisis, the sliding economy, the wars in the mid-east and of course the soon to arrive attack that soothsayer Biden said will come. Much blame will be given to the Republicans over all these crises, but they are now in charge and must fix the problems with their policy of change.

The problem with the "Change" rhetoric is their policies have been tried all over the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, even Great Britain and France and they have all moved away from Obama's changes. Much of the financial crisis started when the Dem's took over the Senate, so if it is business as usual we will really have big problems. There are leaks about federalizing the automotive industry--as an individual with twenty years of experience in the car business more government involvement would be the death of the domestic car industry.

Obama is a smart man. I hope he governs differently then his voting record. One more issue that I am extremely concerned about is the fact that he is the first black president. My choice for president never had anything to do with race but, what if Obama's presidency is akin to Carter's how long would it be before we have another black president. That is what is really concerning. Their are some articulate, out of the box, minority politicians that could do this country some good. However, there are still many that will blame failure on the color of the man in office. This is shameful, but still the case in the U.S.

I was not happy when Obama won the election, because of his policies, however, I was proud of my country that he was elected, because perhaps we have finally put the slavery issue behind us. That goes for the Aryan Brotherhood and the black Poverty Pimps--there is change and these groups are now insignificant