The word is that Romney is going to campaign on the same track that worked so well for Reagan. “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” will be the theme of the campaign. I think we all know the answer to that.
But I think a better question to ask is… “Do you really think tomorrow will be better than today?”
Our nation has made it through plenty of bad days and tough times. Surely the voters in 1864 couldn’t say they were better off than they had been four years prior, but by then the end was in sight, a better tomorrow was nearly possible.
Even though Obama tries to tell us that everything is going splendidly… he just hasn’t told us enough about how good we have it. There is no denying that the past four years have been hard on lots of families. So the question is, do they think they are headed to better tomorrow?
Let’s start on the world in general. For eight years we were told that the world’s problems could be laid at George Bush’s feet. Obama promised to cure these ills.
Iran just needed to be talked to without a Texan accent. That obviously hasn’t turned out well. Iran and Israel are closer to war than ever, the road to war seems unimpeded. We have resorted to clever tactics of assassination and computer viruses to try and slow Iran’s progress. I can’t say I am against aggressive measures to halt their nuclear ambitions, but this is not the rational discussion that Obama promised us would end the crisis.
The rest of the Middle East has become even more dangerous. Egypt, Libya and Syria became full fledged shooting civil wars. Egypt and Libya have cooled off, but their long term prospects do not look good.
Russia and China continue to become more assertive and challenge us more aggressively than they have since the 1950s.
In the People’s State of Europe, they have suffered a complete collapse of the policies that Obama wishes us to embrace. No one knows how far the EU will sink as they continue to flounder from one theoretical fix to the next. This crisis had brought to the surface the supposedly no longer existent tensions between the various countries, races, nationalities and clans that are responsible for nearly two millennia of uninterrupted warfare.
It can be argued that these issues are not directly Obama’s fault, but does anyone believe he can offer any guidance or direction for these problems? The world without a strong United States is as lost as this country is without a strong leader.
At home the outlook for the future is nearly as bleak.
Unemployment has unexpectedly been doing the same thing for years now… nothing. Each time the latest unimpressive news comes up the geniuses that are supposed to be running the show tell us it was very unexpected. Oddly, they seem to be the only ones that are surprised by bad reports nowadays.
Obama has spent a lot of him time trying to blame certain groups for holding up the good work he is trying to do. The people aren’t looking for someone to blame, they are looking for things to get better. The economy continues to sputter along, mostly because the people don’t have anything else to do other then continue to maintain the status quo. Any progress that could be achieved is held up by the uncertainty created by this administration. Is there going to be another stimulus? More printing of money? More taxes? More deficits? Everyone is holding on, hoping tomorrow doesn’t get much worse.
Luckily for us, though, we all have a new Health Care program to save us all from ourselves. Obama forced his idea of healthcare on us when the economy needed his undivided attention. Now he has lowered his sights to focus on birth control while the economy sits stalled waiting for its turn after the really important stuff.
The program that was supposed to make us the envy of the civilized world is viewed with apprehension by the nation, probably because no one has finished reading it in its entirety yet. You would think that after years of everyone except the rich (and members of the government.) getting denied healthcare that everyone would be overjoyed for an opportunity such as this. Instead we have been handed a monstrosity of confusion which seems to fail to deliver on every single item they said it would fix. Unless one of things it promised was being able to stay on your parent’s insurance plan as you sit in your childhood room looking at the fading Obama poster next to your college diploma.
Even if you leave out the actual problems of today, we still have the problems of the future. Medicare/Medicaid are headed to failure. Social Security is already failing. The Obama line seems to suggest some vague argument that is a problem for the future. That’s the same thinking that caused the housing boom/bust. Maybe the American people have learned their lesson about debt… even if Washington hasn’t.
Obama’s people say these problems will be solved in the future because you can trust the government to honor its commitments. (The same government that has a Constitutional mandate to maintain the Post Office which it is failing to do.
Jimmy Carter was right when he said there was a sense of malaise in the country during his presidency. What he failed to understand was that he was the source of it. We face the same situation with the current president. Our problem isn’t that the people forgot how to do the things that made this nation great, it’s that the politicians have. He says that we can’t go back to the policies that got us into this mess, so instead we should continue with the policies that have kept us in the mess.
Yeah, Mitt Romney is rich, and he didn’t buy a big enough car to fit his dog into decades ago and he is boring. But boring is what this country needs. We don’t need a celebrity to fix the country. We need someone who knows what he is doing, who runs the country on proven methods of success. Not the methods that Europe is currently proving to be failures.
So? Do you feel that tomorrow will be better than today?
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