but FUCK, looking at Obama makes me wonder

I agree, he IS a fucking rock star, but hes also a brand, getting whored out to an American public thats more than willing to eat it all up

no shit, I walked into walgreens today and they were selling Obama commemorative plates?! What the hell is that?

Anyways, I guess time will tell if its thats simple, I wish sometimes I still felt that way

fucking alex jones opening my eyes haha

take care man

but FUCK, looking at Obama makes me wonder

I agree, he

This guy is the biggest cult of personality since Jesus. People all over the world think he’s going to fix EVERYTHING. We are putting an unbelievable amount of power into his hands by doing that. We are basically saying “do whatever you have to in order to fix things for us.” Why is this a scary notion? Because it’s not the president’s job! The president, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, has one duty: “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Read the Second Article of the Constitution and the presidential oath. That is the job description. Period. This whole notion of a president doing more and more has become imperial in it’s scope. Which is exactly what the framers and founding fathers were trying to limit.

“Hope and change.” I don’t buy it. Hope is a feeling of desire that what you want will happen in the future. Hope always exists in the future. It’s that unattainable goal. A complete intangible, like “faith”, or a war on “drugs” or “terrorism.” If you never name the goal, you never have to commit to it, and you never have to attain it. Like Bill Hicks said, “it’s like declaring a war on jealousy.”

What is change? Change what? How? These ideas are totally ambiguous. It’s designed to let the individual superimpose their own personal “hopes”, and ideas for “change”. It means something different to everyone. It’s a sales pitch that, in actuality, means nothing. How about “Dreams and making stuff better.”

Giving the president our okay to broaden his powers in order to fix everything, and empowering him with limitless expectations is approaching deification. Like monarchs who are descended from or connected to god. He gets all our hopes and dreams and our authorization to do what he needs in order to accomplish them. It’s an impossibility that will lead to disaster.

Obama voted FOR the Wall Street bailout. That should be enough to show that he has zero intentions in supporting the interests of the average citizen. Obama’s “stimulus plan” will fail just like the Wall Street Bailout, even if for different reasons. Fundamentally, “trickle down” doesn’t work. It’s a scheme to distribute tax payer money to the top people of those various industries. Scary.

Obama is using the same “haste” tactics, “we need to do this now”, that were used to pass the Wall Street bailout. The government has NEVER made a decision in haste that proved beneficial or successful. At least not beneficial for anyone other than big business. Now he’s claiming that “the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life.” The last time we heard a world leader talk like that, with as many sycophants cheering him on, was a guy with a funny little mustache over there in Europe. Obama’s really pushing this “big government” idea. How far will he take it?

We’ve seen NO proof, logically or historically, that shows any probability for success or relief from this stimulus package. More handouts and more debt at the cost of the tax payers is NOT the answer. More trickle down is not the answer. More government is not the answer. We’ll be paying for these bailouts and stimulus turds for generations.

By the way. Who is Barak Obama and where the heck did he come from? I find it impossible to believe that Obama appeared from relatively obscurity to lead the most well funded and expensive campaign in history, winning the seat of the most powerful office in the world. There is no way that you sit in the oval office without playing the political game in Washington. And there is no way that the interests of the citizens will take precedence over the interests of the companies that “donated” all that money. (The top donations came from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan Chase and Co., and Citigroup.) Scary.

Bush was a douche bag, a liar, and a criminal in virtually ever aspect of his administration. But we knew it, and we knew to question him and everything around him. What happens when the same people are behind the curtain, making the same underhanded decisions, and perpetrating the same level corruption, but Barak Obama is the one selling it? Scary things.

Shakespeare got famous writing about the crazy shit the Romans, and Brits were doing. Not to mention the Greeks. Why do we think that government and money are different now then they were then? Because we have cell phones and the internet? The ONLY fundamental difference between then and now, is that information travels to the world instantly. And it’s possible to change the perception of the world just as fast. That’s it.

So, we have a man that the country, if not the world, is placing all of their individual hopes and dreams on, endowed with whatever ever-expanding powers he needs in order to realize those hopes and dreams, who hasn’t disclosed what he plans to do, or how he plans to do it, backed by the largest financial institutions in the world, surrounded by the same people, playing the same game, in the same city, and subject to the same influences, as every other corrupt administration in US history, and who has the ever evolving technological capability to change global perception instantaneously.

If this is the equation, then I fail to see how we expect anything good to pop out other side of the equal sign.

Hope + Change = people – rights – money – freedom

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There are some things I like about Obama, like that he is much more in tune with the scientific community. He’s clearly better than what we’ve dealt with for the last 8 years. You really have to look at his administration as a whole though — and it’s filled with douchebags. The president doesn’t really have much power, obviously. Obama is just a figurehead more than anything.

Obama’s presidency is just convenient for the people who really have power because he superficially represents “change,” and many people aren’t going to question him, when shit is just going to stay the same, if not get worse. It’s like a big game of chess for the people in power. Just like Obama’s advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski titled one of his books “The Grand Chess board.”

We’ll just have to wait and see if his actions speak as genuine as his words!

They actually got people to pay attention and to care about politics on a whole different level than they had ever before in their lives. I think there is actually hope in this country because of what they did to destroy it. Because people paid attention to the debates, the campaigning, the conventions and all the things that both Obama and McCain had to spout and actually voted for the right person. For the first time in a long time (probably since Kennedy) there were enough people that cared about our country and our future to go out and vote.

Even if a lot of people don’t go out and do the things that Obama talks about as far as volunteering and contributing to this country, the point is that there will be MORE people that do because of the hope that this man has inspired. Everyone who voted for him may not go out and try to change the world like he would hope, but enough people will do it that it will make a difference in making our country a better place to live.

To me that is what matters most, is that the man inspired a whole new level of hope that will change the course and direction of our society. Will it be on this grand scale that we would all like it to be? I don’t know if it will, but it will happen on one level or another, and the fact that it is actually happening is what will be the difference.

I too hope it will be a difference because as a new father (like Joe Rogan here) I too hope for a better future for my child than what I have experienced so far. Watching my son grow from newborn to now 17 months old really puts the whole human journey and life into perspective. Things tend not to get to you as much because sometimes it’s just the little one calling you da, da that has more positive meaning in your life than anthing negative ever could.