Three Years In, Ask Not What Obama has done for you…
I heard on the radio yesterday that it was the three year anniversary of Obama’s inauguration. I remember his address to the nation on that day very well. Much like a popular song, I lip synched Obama on YouTube…
S o the question arises, have we, as a people, met the challenges Obama described in his inaugural address? Whatever you think of HIS performance as president, what about OUR performance as the American people in enacting the change he tried to inspire us to back in 2008? How have WE done?
Ask not what Obama has done for you, but instead what you can do for your country and our leader?!!
Over the last three years, I’ve seen Americans stand up to an upstart minority Tea Party challenge. I’ve seen Americans not flinch in the face of the most dramatic (however watered down as to what they COULD be) positive reforms to our health care system and laws ever enacted. I’ve seen Americans march on their state capitals to protest unjust laws enacted by partisan assemblies. I’ve seen us occupy.
Most of the right’s criticisms of Obama are based on fantasy, fear and outright lies about his performance as president. They can be disregarded as unfair and untrue, as they will be in the re-election campaign this Fall. That said, what about the critics of Obama on the left?
We can hold him to the same standard that we ourselves have achieved, and in both cases, there have been some steps forward, but perfection has not been achieved.
Amongst my activist friends here on FriendBurst, I have read frustrated critiques of the public at large (or at least the online community) for being lazy asses who won’t get off their butts to save this country. It’s really just another flavor of the same critical sentiment of Obama not doing enough for the Progressive agenda.
Okay, fine. We haven’t changed the world entirely. But we’ve changed the world a little.
When I listen to the challenge Obama placed on US, as the American people, in his Inaugural address above, I think we’ve done okay.
To use a football analogy, it’s as if the first Obama presidency were first and second down. We’ve run in both cases and gotten 3 yards on each occasion.
Now we face Third Down and Four.
Will we get a first down?
That depends on us, the linemen, just as much as it does Obama, the quarterback.
That was super cool video Joko…LOL!
I can without a doubt say a certain percentage of Americans failed on their performance. :entertained:
I like this….
“Ask not what Obama has done for you, but instead what you can do for your country and our leader?!!” ~ Joko ~
I will have to borrow it!
Excellent blog…poppysmic. 😉
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I also prefer Democrats over Republicans, but not enough to support them with funds or votes.
No one has yet to logically convince me that either of our two dominant political parties will reverse their many decades of cooperation in increasing our burgeoning national debt. In fact, they continue the opposite direction.
There is also the matter of them both creating and continuing many decades of our military-industrial complex, at great expense to our debt load and social welfare.
Both parties are also complicit in not doing enough to reverse our trend toward irreversible uninhabitable global warming. Starting with continuing to reward human breeding with various tax breaks, instead of an envirotax for each dependant created.
I don’t recall who said it, but there is always a leadership vacuum.
For anyone who has yet do do so, feel free to explore my current profile for further insight on my understanding.