Obama failes to call down wrath of the heavans.

I certainly couldn't imagine it before his election, but I'm glad I didn't vote for him and that I didn't really support him even in the primaries. That way I'm not so bitter over his failure to live up to my unrealistic and unwarranted expectations of him.

Give people a little hope and they get all stupid with it. This is why our politicians are such cynical bastards today, they give people hope then they have expectations, and the more general the hope the higher and more unrealistic the expectations are. And when reality sets in, reality that never should have been over looked in the first place but Gosh it's just so much fun making history I can pretend anything is possible and what the hell I want a pony too!

Obama caused his own problems though when he started believing his hype and broke the promise he made after his 2004 convention speech when he said he wouldn't run in 2008. He should have waited, he could have been Hilary's VP, could have snagged the White House for decade and a half. But instead he goes in as the perfect blank slate candidate, where everyone can paint him any color they want, pun intended, and no one can prove them right or wrong. It was perfect, since we already had hollow patriotism that cost nothing but vague platitudes towards the 1% of the population doing all our dirty work for us so we have more time to puff our chests and wear the flag like a BBQ bib. Pigs at the trough one and all.

Two active, stalled wars. Worst financial crises in 80 years, second worst in our entire history as a nation. Massive tensions around the world with North Korea and the Middle East. Constant terrorist threats against the country. A nation more divided than in the last 150 years, not since the Civil War tore us apart. A political Balkanization fracturing the very basis of our representative democracy.

And By God he failed to fix it all, worst president in history according to many, after less than two years of constant obstruction from the right, constant chaos from the left, and there's Obama, stuck in the middle with me, clowns to the left and the right of us.

He gave a good speech. He called us to action. And we jumped right in, criticizing him from all sides.

A people don't get the government they deserve, they get the government they allow. You want to blame someone, look in the mirror. I have.