FLIPSIDE - Obama Drama

We found out the hard way in 2000 that winning a popularity contest does not earn you the right to be the leader of the free world. This was evident when Al Gore had the rug yanked from beneath his campaign as G.W. ignored his vote tally and stole an election that wasn't his. To top off his devilish deed, he tormented us for 8 years with economical miscues and a war that we have yet to figure out the purpose. Then comes Obama. Popular in most aspects of the living, Obama somehow managed to become the first black president of the United States. Did that show progress, or just some people fed up with Bush's unorthodox leadership?

I first thought that it was a sign of progress. then I realize it was nothing of the sort. Two weeks into a presidency that was taken over amid financial chaos, an unexplained war venture, oil prices that moved on up more than the "Jeffersons", and a country begging for change, I saw it. This wasn't progress. In fact it almost felt like a set-up. People were upset that nothing was being done. How quickly did they expect a change? Now the detractors are saying not only did he win because of his popularity, but it was an all together bad decision to vote him in as president. The bid for him to win the Nobel Peace prize just added to this position.

Newspapers, blogs and magazines everywhere are teeming to the brim with opinions that Obama did not deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Some even suggest that he won because of his popularity. yet, others say that most people who voted for Obama don't even support him anymore. That's odd. if that's true, then how could he be winning so many things for being popular? What a contradiction. I've never been on a panel that chose Nobel Peace Prize winners and neither have most of the people who are suggesting that he doesn't deserve it, but they toss around judgements nevertheless. I thought we were making progress, but I see we are still in the same place after all. Catch ya' on the FLIPSIDE.