500 year reboot
Why Me? Stupendous Change
17/February/2010 08:34 Filed in: Weekly
Column
Barack Obama ran for President of the United States
promoting a vision of “Change We Can Believe In.”
Much to the chagrin of many of the people who voted
for him, the true meaning of that catchy phrase
was, “Change He Can Believe In.” What Obama was
able to tap into during his campaign, is that all
humans seek change that they can believe in as one
of the prime goals in their lives. The underlying
paradigm of this change however, relies on the
ability of me to understand what is happening and
to control, or at least find the outcome
sympathetic to my desires for happiness. For me to
see anything to be really positive change of the
first degree, it needs to be achieved without risk,
pain, suffering, or just about anything I could
define as negative or undesirable.
So many Americans, especially those who worked hard to find their security in traditional American values, are grossly disappointed in the reality that when the candidate Obama said change, he really meant that unsettling word, “CHANGE!”
Oh, the audacity of that strange change fellow! We asked for warm feely change, and would you believe it, he really wanted to deliver change that was bordering on what most people would consider stupendous change. This angst is especially true because they elected George W. Bush twice, and he could not deliver on those warm fuzzy desires either. In fact Bush tried so hard by the end of his second term he had basically crashed all of our retirement security, in the names of freedom and unsustainable spending.
“Oh Jesus, what are we to do?”
Of course to bring the words of Jesus into the lyrics of a somewhat contemporary country song: “I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden!”
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So many Americans, especially those who worked hard to find their security in traditional American values, are grossly disappointed in the reality that when the candidate Obama said change, he really meant that unsettling word, “CHANGE!”
Oh, the audacity of that strange change fellow! We asked for warm feely change, and would you believe it, he really wanted to deliver change that was bordering on what most people would consider stupendous change. This angst is especially true because they elected George W. Bush twice, and he could not deliver on those warm fuzzy desires either. In fact Bush tried so hard by the end of his second term he had basically crashed all of our retirement security, in the names of freedom and unsustainable spending.
“Oh Jesus, what are we to do?”
Of course to bring the words of Jesus into the lyrics of a somewhat contemporary country song: “I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden!”
Read More...