Reflections on Hypocrisy

Some readers of this blog are already aware that I quit participating in the elections. I spent an incalculable amount of time working to get Obama in the White House for one main reason: his intention to immediately end the war once he was in office. There was also the promise to close Guantanamo Bay camps, and to a lesser extent, the promise of universal healthcare.

I never believed that Obama could accomplish the universal health care – face it, there are too many wealthy opponents (mostly Republicans) that would rather people like me just died. I am one of many with no health insurance and serious medical issues, and I have no doctor to go to. I had to decide that I no longer cared.

I did believe Obama when he stated that if the war had not already ended by the time he was in office, it would be the first thing that he would do: END the WAR! Don't recall him saying that? No problem – play the YouTube in this blog's header. The band is nuERA and the song is Head of State. The clip at the beginning is from an October 2007 Obama campaign speech; one that I believed. The clip at the very end is of President Obama post-election.

Are the Guantanamo Bay camps closed? If you think they are it's only because you stopped paying attention; I didn't.

Now I see in the news that President Obama intends to compromise with the conservative Republicans in some off-the-wall attempt to be re-elected in 2012. Excuse me – he has already compromised anything and everything that mattered to me as I spent an incalculable amount of time working to get him elected the first time.

In mid-term elections many Democrats were tossed out and replaced by conservative Republicans, many of the Tea Party persuasion. Are you telling me that Obama doesn't know why this happened, as it will soon happen with his own office? It is because he compromised those that believed in him the most: people like me. He compromised all of his promises and instead escalated more wars. Look at the US presence in the Middle East today as evidence.

I do not give a flying crap who is president anymore – you have that correct – even if it's Tea Party queen Palin. The same goes for each and every Democrat in the Senate and the House that consistently vote in favor of more war spending (they call it defense and military spending), more restrictions on the American people in the form of invasive searches and an end to civil liberties in the form of legislation like renewals of Patriot Act. Apparently I am not alone.

You see, the warmonger Republicans are at least straightforward and honest about their intentions. The Democrats just lied and voted their real thoughts and intentions. Not much worse than liars riding on the backs of the millions that allowed them to be where they are today.

If President Obama doesn't get what he has done here and why things went as they did, well, then he is not as intelligent as I believed. I sure didn't expect him to fix the economy – hell – Bush spent 8 years killing it in various ways.

People often forget about and discard what is no longer convenient in an agenda. Too bad.


I thank wakeuphate29 for the excellent and informative YouTube and nuERA for the timely music of Head of State.