Well, we are over nine months into Obama's presidency, and already there has been a flurry of controversy.  The Van Jones dismissal, the ACORN debacle, healthcare, stimuluspalooza, professor vs. police fiasco, etc.  All of these things are ingredients for an alphabet witches brew that spells out why it's never good to assign a novice to the top brass position.  Obama  (with his limited experience in the Senate) showed he was a good orator, but now we're coming face to face with the notion that that can't be the only reason to put someone in a leadership role, especially one as important as the presidency.  His poll numbers are going down in a hurry.  Statistically, in a time like this, it's never good for the president to be giving so much face time to the press.  What's good for the campaign doesn't work after you've gotten the job.  Two different issues that require two different battle plans.  Yet he keeps giving his canned interviews with pre-chewed softball questions on networks that don't challenge him or giving speeches in forums where no one is allowed to publically bring him to task.

Then we have the polticians who belittle their consituents in town hall meetings, if they are brave enough to have the meetings at all.  What is going on with this scenario?  Last I checked the politicians worked for the voters.  The bombastic way in which the elected representatives have treated the individuals that butter their bread is completely invective.  One of my local representatives was so cowardly that she had a town hall meeting via phone conference.  She wouldn't even face the constituents.  When people expressed their displeasure with that, sure she had a public meeting where she graced voters with her presence; but she did it around mid-afternoon at a senior center and planned it on a last-minute basis.  Needless to say, there was not a big turn out. 

What has our country become, an oligarchy?  How dare someone that works for me treat me with such contempt.  If I was a business owner and had an employee that acted this way, they'd be signing up for unemployment so fast, their head would spin.

I thought Obama touted change we could believe in.  But this is politics as usual.  It's not a racist thing.  It's not a Republican vs. Democrat thing.  This is corruption on all sides, and I as an American citizen and registered voter am tired of it.  I will fight back with my vote.  I'm glad people protested in D.C. last weekend.  I'm glad the Whitehouse was shocked at the massive turnout.  "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", and Congress has overstepped its boundaries one too many times. 

The sleeping giant has awakened.