These two dance to the same tunes, get married to each other and at the end of the day are friends!
So this week has been really tiring for me. I don’t know if it’s because I’m recovering from a cold, I have a challenging seventh grade class, I’m busy with an online class or the crazy election results are buzzing in my head! Maybe it’s everything combined. My sister claims I’m upset about the election. I don’t really think so, as I could see it coming like everyone else. Really what is so different? Corporate Democrats have been replaced by corporate Republicans. They are both corrupt and it was hard to really fight for those Dems, because they so easily disappointed all of us.
However, there is a bright spot in this election. Many of those “Blue Dog Democrats” are gone. I didn’t care a bit for them. DINO’s should all become extinct as far as I’m concerned. I don’t like to see Senator Russ Feingold taken down though. I guess he’s a casualty of being “Obamatronned”.
President Obama really did everything he could to get rid of many Democrats. I have really wondered about what he really wanted. There was so much that he could have done, that he didn’t do. It’s hard to understand why he made the choices he did in the last two years and why he continues to disappoint so many of us through his leadership style. He hasn’t lead and that is the problem. He hasn’t explained anything which hasn’t helped at all. He’s governed in the image of GW which really frustrates any real left leaning person anywhere.
Yesterday I heard a couple of sixth grade students talking about Obama. One said to the other, “You don’t want to be a loser like Obama.” When the eighth grade students held a mock election, Rick Snyder, the self professed nerd, won for governor here in Michigan. My class of sixth graders erupted in cheers when they heard the news over the loud speaker. Strangely enough it brought back the same memories of when Obama won the mock election just two years earlier. I live in a very Republican town. Obama won our mock election big and so did the nerd win big for the governorship. The nerd is a Republican. It seems like the parents of my students here in Sturgis can easily switch from the package Obama was selling to the package that Rick Snyder was selling.
The big thing is both of these guys came in like they were something special that was going to change politics. Rick Snyder won but of course we’ll have to wait and see what his leadership skills really look like. We have already witnessed Obama’s leadership skills and unfortunately they are greatly lacking. I, like most people, don’t have a lot of confidence in what he’s selling. Earlier this fall Obama addressed the nation’s school children. It was really well received and I felt like the students really looked up to him. So I wonder what happened over the last two months that changed for them. Why did I hear a sixth grader speaking so poorly about Obama when just a couple months before they were so enthralled with him? I think there must be a lot of conversation going on at home or maybe it’s the constant blasting of the mass media. Some how in the last couple of months the students I teach vastly changed their feelings about the president. If Obama’s lost the youth and these young students are future voters, what does he have left?
It’s funny when I think back to the 2008 election and that “package” Obama was selling. It seemed like everyone was expecting a Democratic victory just as they were expecting a Republican victory during this election. Obama was handed the election. Much was done to assist him including dismissing Hillary Clinton. She was taking all of the “real” Democratic states if you will recall. The race was very close, much closer than people really want to remember. The two big states of Florida and Michigan were taken out with the game playing that was going on. Both of those states were the type of state that would probably have gone for Hillary Clinton in the end. My vote for John Edwards in the primary was basically stolen. It was given to Obama on May 31st, 2008 when the Democrats got together and decided how to “handle” us voters here in Michigan. At that time they even took votes away from Hillary, a very anti-democratic procedure!
Thinking about that election is interesting because it seemed like McCain didn’t have a chance in hell and he wasn’t supposed to have one either. He was supposed to lose. It was part of the plan. Sarah Palin almost made it possible for him to win. As much as she makes the left crazy a lot of other people are crazy about her. She turned McCain’s campaign around. If the October surprise, you know the banking crisis, hadn’t erupted, who knows what would have happened with the election? The point of all of this is I feel very much like we have been “played”. Each of these elections we were told how we were going to vote and what was going to happen. Last time the Republicans were supposed to lose and this time the Democrats were supposed to lose. I don’t trust politics and I frankly wonder who is really pulling the strings. Corporations seem to have the control over our votes now more than ever. We are fed garbage in and we regurgitate garbage out with our vote. My 6th grade students had all they needed to know about the governorship, the “nerd” won and the “angry” mayor didn’t. Hmmm, I wonder where they heard those meaningless words. Candidates are packaged to sell. Barack Obama was packaged as the “change” agent and Rick “Nerd”, oh I mean Snyder, was packaged as a businessman with both a brain and a plan. You know the smart guy that’s picked last for dodge ball in school won the election.
As much as the Republicans want to think they’re the cool kids in class right now, they need to remember that next time will probably be the Democrats turn to fool the American people.