It’s Time for Change… Or is it?

Barack Obama has been President of the United States for exactly 9 months as I write this. His campaign was largely based on it being a time for change. I say largely because there were other aspects of the campaign that seemed to rely heavily on Bob the Builder.

“Can we fix it?”











He was elected with 365 Electoral College votes. For those living outside America and for the 50% of Americans who cant be bothered to find out how their political system works, here is a brief rundown.

Each state has a certain number of electoral votes. The number of electoral votes relates to the population in that state. If the majority of voters in that state vote for say, Barack Obama, then he gets the Electoral College votes from that state. There is a total of 538 with a simple majority needed to win a Presidential election. Got it? Ok, good.

So President Obama won and now, with the mandate given to him by the American people he can bring change to the country, right. Wrong. You see the rest of the world has this preconception that Americans are stupid and fat. Turns out the rest of the world was half right.

The problem, as I see it, is that President Obama ran on the promise of change. He won, so it is not a stretch to say that the American people wanted change too. Since he said he would bring change, and the people has said yes we want change, he then proceeded to put forward legislation to bring about change. At which point the American people decided really they didn’t want change. What they really wanted was to keep things just as they are.

Which, if you think about it is just about the most pants on head retarded thing that Americans have done in quite some time.

The big stick up the arse that the citizens of their great nation seem to have is that President Obama wants to make their health care better. And what is the argument against the betterment of their society?

That raisng the taxes “will lead America to ruin.” Fair enough, since if something is only broken for 50 million of your fellow citizens then its probably not worth fixing at all. Just a small side note, President Obama wants to raise taxes on the uber wealthy bankers that have got all of us into this recession in the first place, not you, the people throwing a fit in Washington DC. So what is your problem again?

Most of the time I try to ignore what the right has to say, but this time I’m quite enjoying it. Compared to the rest of the world America is nowhere near the top in education and health care. I don’t know where they are exactly, all I know is that we are higher.

And so is Costa Rica. You beat Slovenia though, so… yay.

But even if the red-necks do win they will then be faced with a much larger task than reforming health care.



Changing all the bumper stickers.