Okay, here it is in a nutshell. With BUSH, we took our eye off the ball and let him do as pleased as long as he protected us. We’re all guilty of wanting to be safe. But after time we realized that the safety net, was actually a diversion. So we asked for a change. Enter, OBAMA. Now, I agree that this canidate did have a lot of “grass root” support. But the change is doing, I’m sorry is not the change his supporters signed up for. So yes, people are mad. They’re upset, because they told Bush, NO MORE SPENDING. Now they see Obama, with a bigger budget, 2/3’s of which is pork spending, and they aren’t going to take it lying down this time.

Ian, I have said before… it’s a shame your guy is in now, because Obama, to me, seems like a cool cat. It’s just bad timing. It’s not a racist thing, and it’s not a political party thing. It is a GLOBAL PROBLEM. Had we minded our business, and done as founding fathers had laid out for us… this mess, well not our problem.

We all have opinions and no one is going to change anyone’s mind so let’s let this thread that has strayed horribly off topic die right here.

Unfortunately they probably won’t be given that chance as they’ve all been labeled a bunch of right-wing extremists by the DHS and the MIAC here in our own state.

Solutions to our problems don’t come from people standing on the sidelines and clucking their tongues at those who have the nerve to believe in the people they elect. You know, I have a lot of problems with government as well. I don’t agree with every Obama does or Biden says. But I’m not going to lump them with Bush-Cheney or all other politicians over some abstract concept like “power.” That’s what they exert. That’s what we elect them to do, like it or not. And no one can tell me with a straight face that some third-party leader wouldn’t do exactly the same thing.