BAROCKSTAR Obama vs. John MAVERICKAIN — No Surprises

PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES — BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Barack Obama — champion for hope — agent of change — breaking the mold of our flawed, unchanging political system. He’s spoken like a true revolutionary, a new American hero. He says a lot of very inspirational things, but will America start to feel any cognitive dissonance about its new President-elect?

It has felt for some time like a foregone conclusion that Barack Obama would become our nation’s next President. I think we can look to his campaign for a definition of what charisma can do for a person. Barack Obama, still a new face in the political realm, has become the new face of American politics. It’s 21-months of soaring rhetoric, the most comprehensive campaign ever launched for a political office and charisma that got him here.

The man who has been labeled by his record to be the single most Liberal Senator in Congress has been taken at his word to be a Centrist. The man who voted “present” some 130 times and missed nearly half of the current Congressional votes has spoken his way to a victory of epic proportions.

Will America’s confidence in its next leader maintain or will some of it start to dwindle as we start thinking about what our decision means? This is a very real question as we start to realize that we have essentially no basis of comparison for what the man says as compared to what he does, or even what he has the capability to do. Will we forget the past, as he certainly seems to have done, and look only to the future? Where is the wisdom in looking blindly into the future and never to the past? We are, after all, a country with a very short memory and an even shorter attention span.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the man well enough; he’s charismatic and passionate about his country. However, he doesn’t intend to bring liberty, freedom, democracy, free-market economics and laissez-faire policies back to the levels established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. But then again, few politicians want to limit government by its original Constitutional bounds; it’s very profitable for our lawmakers to keep the power in their own hands.

In 1929, Congress passed a bill fixing the number of Representatives at 435, when that number as defined by the Constitution should increase proportionately with the population to promote competition, fairness and accurate representation. When once we had one representative for every 40,000 people, we now have one for nearly every 700,000 people. And as our population grows, the misrepresentation and monopoly power of Congress will only grow stronger. I can’t imagine how that benefits anyone besides the Congress itself. Congress is clearly self-serving.

Moreover, I do believe that this is an incredibly historic election. Congratulations are in order for Obama and his extensive campaign. I’m very proud to have been able to participate in the process for the first time. And I hope that if you did as well, you participated with purpose and not with apathy or ignorance. After all, the responsibility falls on you and me as citizens of this country to preserve our liberty and to make heard what we believe in.



Barack Obama image from mensvogue.com


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