Obama's Inauguration

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I normally wouldn't post this here, what with my lack of popularity and general inactiveness, but my other forum has a 500 post requirement for the Serious Discussion forum that I've yet to work out with the admins. It was originally twelve paragraphs, but due to a posting issue, I'm going to have to retype and summarize it in a much less eloquent manner.

On Obama's Inauguration:

Quick disclaimer before I start: I don't like Obama as a president. I do not hate him and I do support him as the president of the US, but I would've preferred if McCain won. That's not what these next few paragraphs are about though and I don't want to talk about policies and political issues.

I'm sick and tired of hearing people worship Obama, either because of his election as the president or because of his inauguration, specifically the speech. It's as if people are building a pedestal of ignorant reasons and pathetic excuses to worship Obama upon. I don't disagree that this presidency isn't a historic moment in our lives. I expect to someday be asked "Where were you when Obama was elected?" But to go to the lengths that everyone has these last couple of days? It's asinine and pathetic. This man isn't some God.

Here are a few of the common irritating comments I've heard from some people since Tuesday. Note that a lot of these go hand-in-hand.

First bothersome remark: Obama is a charismatic and inspirational speaker and it makes his policies all the more effective. After eight years of listening to Bush's dorkiness and the way he stumbled across words, I think we can all appreciate how articulate our new president is. Obama is a breath of fresh air from mispronounced and misused words, but a president's achievements aren't measured by how skillfully he uses rhetoric or how confident and inspirational he is in his speech. It's like firing a reporter because they couldn't write, but then worshiping the replacement without accessing his ability to write just because he could type fast. Sure, 100wpm will certainly make the job easier and less taxing, but that doesn't measure the reporter's ability to write. Or, in Obama's case, ability to speak doesn't measure his effectiveness as a president. It's just part of the job. Also, I think we're forgetting something of importance: Hitler was both charismatic and inspirational when he spoke to a distraught Germany. Look where he ended up in the middle of the twentieth century.

Moving on, a typical retort to the above paragraph is that when Obama skillfully speaks, he also presents policies and plans that promise change. America needs change and it needs to reestablish itself as a world power. We all can agree on that. I, no doubt, want this to happen. But what's to say that Obama is going to be the one to do this? Lets take a look over the last eight years. Bush won the presidency, but God knows he's bad some awful mistakes. Who's to say another catastrophe with as much affect as 9/11 isn't going to happen again? We can't determine how effective Obama is going to be by just looking at what he hopes and promises to do. We have four years to access the situations and see how he truly does as a president, not on how well he convinces you he can do. A lot of presidents have gone against what the preached in their campaigns. Why should Obama be any different?

My third and for this post's purpose final comment that I abhor is that Obama is BLACK! And the first black president at that. Our new president deserves all the credit in the world for this achievement, but expecting me to believe that he can lead us to discovery, change, and revolution because of the color of his skin is ignorant. A black friend of mine came up to me today and asked "How do you like my black president?" Your black president? Isn't he America's president? I have two things to say that insist Obama's superiority because of the tone of his skin. The first is that, if you really want to argue, Obama is the goddamn whitest black guy you'll ever meet. He's a half-black that lost his African American heritage soon after he was born because his African father left him. He was raised as a white, plain and simple. My second response is: You hypocrite. If you're so bold as to suggest that Obama is better than a white president because of the color of his skin, then I'll be so bold as to suggest that we re-enslave all the blacks in America. Don't apply double-standards to this situation. If I can't discriminate someone because they're black, not that I would, then don't discriminate the efficiency of my elect because they aren't black.

I don't think that Obama is going to fail as a president, nor do I want him to. I'm simply saying that the worshiping of his presidency needs to stop. It's ridiculous, unnecessary, and sickening. I'll give him all the credit due to him when he actually fixes our country. Until then, he is just another president, and I don't think anyone should try and claim otherwise.
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But, but, but...


CHANGE!!!!!!!!
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I think they're being sarcastic. *Captain Obvious*

Eh, you're right. All three of those comment have equally pissed me off the last few days too.

Black President? Yeah, an achievement and a forward movement for the overly ignorant voters [I say these things so you don't have to] but it doesn't mean anything for what's going to happen to America.

Great public speaker = good presidential run? Tony Blair was a good public speaker. Are WE in a prosperous state of yay? Hell no.

So yeah, feeling your pain, man.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VuMzgeSflQ
Obama's first day