Tales of Mediocrity

The other day I was watching the news, and I heard a discussion about how Barack Obama said he would rather be a really good one term president, than a mediocre two term president. This was quite humorous to me, as most of the American population, or at least the people responding to the online article I found that corresponds to this and conservatives, seem to think that it is impossible for him to be either. His presidential campaign was one of change, but the only thing that has changed in his first year was the unemployment rate. He has been spending all of his time trying to force his socialist health care down our throats, some say to take our attention from his trail of broken promises.
Tomorrow night, the president will give his first state of the union address. The State of the Union address is used not only to report on the condition of the nation, but also allows the president to outline his legislative agenda and national priorities to Congress. This year, president Obama is expected to explain how his goals for his administration and Congress to fix our declining economy and high employment problem.
Republicans like Scott Brown, who recently won the special senate election in Massachusetts, a predominately Democratic state, have been criticizing Obama’s policies, like the stimulus package, for having failed to create jobs. Barack acknowledges that the poor economic times are contributing to his low approval rating, but says he is not in office just to remain there for eight years.
Obama is quoted as saying “I don’t want to look back on my time here and say to myself all I was interested in was nurturing my own popularity.”

It is my opinion is that Barack Obama SHOULD be trying to nurture his own popularity. Instead of forcing an unwanted health care bill, or a stimulus package that has apparently done nothing to help the economy, he should be concerned with things the American people care about. And I don’t mean that Americans don’t care about what he is doing; the majority of the country is strongly against it. Arguments about what he is doing can be heard anywhere, people praising him, calling him a savior, and giving him Nobel peace prizes. But what has he done to deserve any of these things? Eventually America is going to have to pay its over ten TRILLION dollar debt. That number is inconceivable, and we’re going to have to pay it eventually, yet he continues to raise it higher and higher on things we don’t want; things we don’t need.

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