New Prez? So what?

I was going to do it. I wasn't. Just because it's the biggest piece of news in a while doesn't mean I have to comment, right? I can hold off.....Right? Yeah. Not so much. McCain and Obama. Obama kicked the stuffing out of McCain, and is on his way to the white house. So what?

Honestly is anything going to be different this time around? I'm pretty jaded when it comes to politics now, and I'm only in my 30's, so why so bitter you ask? Gee I don't know. I'm in Canada so politics seems rather innocuous up here. We barely had a voter turn out in our election 2 weeks ago, and the last time we had a candidate that inspired anyone was Trudeau. Forget the fact that our politico's are corrupt as the day is long, and that there has yet to be any real sweeping reforms that affects me or my family. Not to mention that my idea of politics leans more towards service of the country, than of what I perceive it to be: a bunch of money grubbing bastards in for themselves. Yeah. It's a pretty negative outlook, but heck I've been fostering it for a long time. It's a soldiers god-given right to complain.

So now that Obamarama is in effect, that big ideal he's been spouting; "Change", should be about ready to spring up out of nowhere like a drunken college prankster in a sorority house. And as I sit here typing I can feel the change occurring. Yep. There it is, just creeping up behind me about to strike. Whoops! I was wrong. It was just gas. Change is something that has indeed happened in the States, seeing as how they elected their first black President. The consciousness of the nation has shifted, and now they're looking to try something that might be completely different. But how different? The old saying comes to mind "the more things change, the more they stay the same", and I fail to grasp the impact of what has occurred. In fact I have to wonder if anything will change. Change takes a whole lot of time, and the States has tons of problems at home and abroad which cannot be fixed over night. Iraq is probably going to be the biggest monkey on the new Presidents back, as well as the global financial situation. So what's he going to bring to the table other than a tired out rhetoric, and inspiring words people only hear during elections?

I figure the way things are, the troops are still going to be in Iraq for the next 4 years, and the economy will play it's ups and downs right until the bitter end. Hopefully "change" will occur for the better, and we won't see ourselves plunging into a downward spiral, like falling stars from the heavens.

Freeman