Presidential Complaints

Ever since Barrack Obama won the presidential elections I have heard bad thing after bad thing about his hopes and plans for a different kind of administration. The most common of those complaints being centered around his health care reform bid. Tell me what is so horrible about giving the big insurance companies something to compete with? The insurance that my husband gets through his job for our family takes over a quarter of his paycheck every time. If you could find the same coverage for less money wouldn't you take it?

Insurance companies these days actually have people that sit around all day looking over other peoples' insurance policies and claims trying to find a way around covering a claim! Can you believe that!?!?!?! That's their only job.

Now the war in Afghanistan I can't agree with. I don't think we should still be there. And historically we as a country have been all too eager to stick our noses into other peoples' business and never leave. I know that those men and women would all rather be home with their families, but because of their calling they will go where they are "needed" to "protect" this country. I have the utmost respect for the troops that are there or anywhere else in the world. But I think that using them to set up government in other countries is not their job.

Taliban will never stop. It's the kind of extremism that will be passed on, just like racism, it's taught early and the student soon comes to think that it's the only way of thinking. You cannot change minds like that. So much violence has been carried out in the name of whatever higher power, way of living, differing opinions what have you.

But back to the original point of this post. President Obama. Yes he is bringing a new kind of administration that many of us have never seen before. He's shaking things up on Capitol Hill. People don't like to be shaken. Many people have said to me, his changes are not for the better. In my opinion, he can do no worse than Bush did. Yes, he may be trying to change too much too soon and that may scare many Americans, but that doesn't mean that these changes aren't necessary. He's taking a new approach to foreign relations, no longer acting like America is the most powerful and losing the arrogant attitude that has plagued the White House for so long. I for one am very proud to call him my President. He is brave enough to go for the changes that this country needs most. Wise enough to keep council even with those who oppose him politically. A man like that makes a powerful leader.