Pleasing People Gets You Nowhere

Our government is said to be one the best and most powerful in the world. We often say that we should feel lucky to live under a government such as this. Our government and our citizens need a sharp reality check. Lately, candidates for governing seats across the U.S. have become very imersed in the idea that to do a good job you must listen to the people that elected you and show that you care about ALL of the their opinions.

Wake up.

Caring or and addressing peoples' opinions is how you win the seat to govern, but it is not how you do good for our country. There is no possible way to please every person that the elected depended on to win their seat. The only way to do good for our country is to sometimes act as a trustee for our country on major issues to further along the process of making it a law. The biggest currently doing things like this is our dear President Obama.

Barack Obama may be the most well spoken president to speak to our nation in a while, even though Bush was a very well-spoken Spanish speaker, but speaking and listening will not get him anywhere for where he wants to take our nation in this idea of 'HOPE' that he created. 'HOPE' is an idea and is not something we can give to people along with a pink slip at their jobs. Obama needs to instill something greater in our country by actually achieving something. He has been more of talk and trying to please people which is nothing more than theatrics and could be replicated by Miss South Carolina.

What we need right now is action being taken. For example, the 'universal healthcare package' that is trying to be passed before the end of the this legislation is big for his party and presidency, but has been nothing but talk thus far into his young term. We need to care less about what people really 'care' about and do what we think is best for the country. I promise, very unpopular decisions in the past are now overlooked as normal, such as civil rights and women's rights.

I am not saying that I support the universal health care, because I don't. I am just saying that action needs to be taken fast and with full power in order to do good change for our country. We expect the leaders in the governing seats to lead, not to ask us how we feel. Make the decision for our betterment, and, if we don't like it, we will let you know by not re-electing you.

Why don't we look to Ann Coulter for opinion more often?

Ann Coulter, one of the smartest women in America, can be very blunt to the sensitive people of our country, but you must admit that she makes a lot of sense. She just says things in a way that we do not want to hear them because we are afraid to hear the truth. Her blog posting titled 'Take 2 Aspirin and Call Me When Your Cancer is Stage 4', speaks the truth about the health care bill that the Dems are trying to pass which pushed along by our smartest president ever, Barack Obama.

The passing of the a universal health care plan sounds like socialization to me. Coulter is right is saying that our countrymen do not deserve to have to pay for everyone's healthcare because not everyone will use the same amount. The comparisons that she uses are spot on and make clear sense. She says that the government democrats would be complaining today if 50 years ago the government passed the 'universal food care' package which took care of food costs. If this healthcare bill passes, she is believes that the government dems will still complain in 50 years.

She convinces the reader that healthcare is not a basic right that people are born with in America. We do not have the right to universal healthcare but we have the privilege to purchase it on our own. It is not one of our natural rights that we all deserve. Her government critique is correct in saying that the government helped us with other areas in life such as 'helping' to mandate insurance companies.

Finally, Coulter is correct in saying that our country does all that they can already to make healthcare readily available to people everywhere. Our country offers programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans hospitals which is great for our citizens. They may need some cleaning up to better work for citizens, but they work nontheless.

Universal Healthcare is a bad idea and Ann Coulter deserves to be recognized more often.

She's pretty good looking, too.

You're Joking...... Right?

The editorial posted on The Wall Street Journal by Daniel Henninger is an opinion that sends mixed messages about Barack Obama. Most of past presidents have been known for the great things that they have done our country or known for sending our country into a downward spiral. Barack Obama is going to be known for his speech, according to this editorial, which makes him one of our best presidents ever.

This is a complete joke.

Mr. Henninger is trying to write something positive of the current president, but it is very sad that the only thing that he can even point out about him is that he is making ‘public speech the center of his presidency’. The author is reaching out to those that are still in the president’s honeymoon in which nothing he can do is wrong. I can admit that Obama’s speech is very spectacular. Our country has not had someone with such eloquent speech as him in a long while. While his great speeches remain true, this is not a golden road that will lead him into the great presidents list. We wish for a president that is well spoken, but we should also wish for a president that knows what he is doing. His speech is great, but, as his best trait, it leads Americans away from what he is actually saying. Most people, even during the elections, could not even quote something that was said by Obama least of all the subject that he was talking about.

Barack Obama can continue to amaze the rest of America with his speech, but some day soon our country must wake up to the fact that he is not doing at all what he promised the voters. In a final argument, the author says that the purpose of a rhetorician’s art is to persuade. Obama has managed to persuade the nation that he is best at public speech, but he has yet to persuade that he can do what he promised to do in office nor bringing the country together.

Sotomayor the Right Choice, But Not the Best

Today went another day in the questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor has called herself a 'radical' judge with her rulings and past decisions, but the GOP had the correct response to this label. Senator Lindsey Graham said to Sotomayor during the hearing that she has a 'record as a judge has not been radical by any means'. According to the article tat was posted on CNN.com, the GOP said that they have no intention to fillibuster her nomination as a Justice and that they expect her to be confirmed by the Senate before their break this fall.
By the end of the day's questioning, Sotomayor's beliefs and rulings were established with her answers on such issues as gun control, abortion, and same-sex marriage. While Sotomayor answered every question to the panel of Senators, I am one American that is still not completely sold on her nomination. The ‘radical’ judge, I felt, was not questioned as toughly as she should be. The Barack Obama nomination is a strong willed judge, but she is not the correct person for the position. This nomination seems nothing more than a political stunt by Barack Obama. The nomination is not the right one, but we can only allow time to tell us if she will be a good one.