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Oh well...Within the next four years, many people will develop a nasty case of buyer's remorse. Obama's campaign had quite a successful marketing strategy. Riding on a Bush-bashing media wave, the tone was set for their winning sales approach. They emphasized the imagined deficiency of the customer's life in a Bush administration. Using an already biased media, they capitalized on the "change" they could offer and branded Obama as the agent of change. It didn't matter what that change was, as long as it didn't have anything to do with Bush. No specifics on the promises, just promises, just words said from the podium to fill that imagined need. Also, because our society has been moving towards government dependency and entitlement, any promise Obama made was more palatable to the general population.
Obama's marketing team also took advantage of his packaging, that he would be the first Black President, that he is more intelligent and articulate than Bush, and that he's young. They've also priced him well: tax cuts for the middle and lower class, tax hike for the rich, and relief programs for the poor. As the candidate with the most money spent on a campaign, it's no wonder that he would win.
I'm disappointed in McCain's marketing strategy. Then again, I really can't blame him. There were way too many factors against him. His campaign wasn't smart enough to deal with the media's bias and the culture's already ingrained antipathy towards Bush. Then again, Bush's public relations team did not do a good job at all in defending him well these past eight years. Instead, they allowed the liberal media to walk all over them. Bush took the high road, but at a great price. Most people don't take the time to research politics - they just watch or read what's readily available. Of course, now everyone will have to pay the price and those who elected Obama will realize it sooner or later.
As the new Commander-in-Chief, I have a duty to submit to Obama's authority. I won't agree with him, but he will be my President. I'm hoping that his progressive views would allow him to be more malleable over the course of his term. If so, it is imperative that Christians and conservatives rise up and make a huge effort in letting him know that we've not left the building. We're now more emboldened than ever to bring actual change to our nation, our society, and our culture.
It will only be four years. I can only hope the damage won't be too extensive.
Have you not seen how bad it has been the last 8 years?
ReplyDelete-Two wars in the exterior which have not only costs thousands of American lives, but millions of foreign lives as well.
-The greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
-The denial of health insurance to millions of poor children and the elderly.
-The lowering of taxes for the wealthiest in our society, while spending has skyrocketed.
-The 9/11 tragedy, which might have possibly been avoided if Bush had been more attentive in reading CIA documents presented to him in the months before the tragedy.
-The demonization of America in the eyes of more than half the world.
Do not be ignorant, my friend. I am a Christian, and I intend to see only that God's will is done and that we follow it to the best of our capabilities. I don't think that the overwhelming majority of Americans (who have dropped Bush's approval rating to the low 30's) and the world could be wrong about this. Progress is good. Remember slavery, denial of suffrage to women, even the legalization of ABORTION in our nation? The Republicans either established those things (in the case of abortion, read up) or have fought to keep them in place in the past. I pray and can almost certainly predict that Obama's presidency will be better than Bush's and I hope you can see that in the near future.
Thank you for contributing! I'm glad you profess to be a Christian. The beauty of Christianity is in our diversity of perspectives.
ReplyDeleteNothing against you, but I wonder where you get your information. If you rely on public high-school taught history, popular media, or the first page of Google results, then you'll have to do a little more digging. Just to be clear, I'm conservative, but since there's no conservative party, I'm more in line with Republicans. I support Bush, but I don't agree with him 100%, even from back in 2000. He did reflect a lot of what I believed, though. Here's a quick response to your list:
-Not millions - about 700,000 deaths total (directly and indirectly related to the war, including things like disease and malnutrition) and about 4,000 American soldiers over 5 years. Now compare that to D-Day: about 4,000 were killed in one day. Both are absolutely horrible, but I'm glad we don't have the craziness we experienced in WWII. And we're making progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, thankfully. More...
-Well, it may be the greatest since, but try not to compare it to the Great Depression. The way our economy is like, it won't really reach those levels. I guess you're as young as I am because the actual Great Depression generation won't even equate the two. Besides, you can thank your Democrat friends for being a big factor in the mess we're in. More...
-Libs got you with that one, too, huh? Bush did allow SCHIP to expand. But he vetoed the SCHIP over-expansion because it would've included those above the poverty line.
-Well, taxes for the wealthy weren't lowered that much. In fact, you can make a case that he didn't lower them at all!
-Remember to take conspiracy theories with a grain of salt and not to point the finger at just one person. It's better to see events like 9/11 as a result of a number of factors that I'm not about to explain here. Research it for yourself: you can start in the 1970s with Jimmy Carter's administration.
-The rest of the world has always had a love/hate relationship with the US. Nothing new.
No worries, I try not to be ignorant. I suggest you continue to study history, especially concerning Republicans, since you seem to have a disdain for them. But also read about the Democrats. Quick summary so you can look it up - concerning the Republican party: was created on an abolitionist platform in the 1850s; were the primary force behind ratifying the 14th and 19th Amendments; helped to bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (in keeping with its history). They weren't perfect, but you've made an error in condemning them.
And just because Republicans nominated SCOTUS judges, doesn't mean the judges will be conservative. Of those judges who decided over Roe vs. Wade: Burger changed his view during the Reagan years; Stewart was initially against the idea in a previous ruling, then changed because of "right to privacy," which is based on flawed reasoning; Brennan was a liberal; Powell was a swing voter, not really a conservative; and Blackmun moved to the left in the first few years of his service, which said a lot about him.
I could care less if you didn't like Bush, I just hope you look deeper into the issues and not just buy whatever line is given you.
By the way, who are you?