[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by iogames

reality of life is slapping Obama faster then I thought, he hasn't resolve a single problem and now he's recognizing his own mistakes....

Hmm...

The problems he inherited are not something that can be resolved over night. Even closing the incarceration camp at Guantanomo Bay isn't an overnight thing. The current issues like cleaning up the mess in Iraq, rebuilding the economy and our international standing will take years if not decades to correct. It isn't just the current sitting President that has to do this either.

The President of the United States has to be a leader and inspire the people of this country and within its sphere of influence to do the right thing. The last eight years have been mired with vengeance and clouded judgement as well as bad advice leading to the wrong decisions. I don't think that George W. is a bad person. He just followed bad advice and didn't make all the right decisions. No one person can. Hindsight is always perfect.

Our new President isn't going to be perfect. We can't expect that of any man. However if he has the right advisors and information than he can make proper decisions. Nothing is going to be fixed overnight, even Obama knows this. He has said from the start that things will probably get worse before they get better. This is from before he had the security briefings and the benefit of the information he now which only goes to show that things are worse than we were led to believe over the last year. However it is only his job to inspire and lead while presenting ideas to fix the issues. We as a people need to enact those ideas and as they say in Texas, "Grab the bull by its horns" and turn this country around. If you sit around and blame the government for your "lot in life" then you will be no better off in 4 to 8 years. If however you face the challenges ahead and tighten your belt a bit then you will get through anything and be stronger for it. Your life will be better. You may not be richer or have more personal resources. But it will be better for the experience, even if there are mistakes. The only way we can learn and put forth new avenues of thinking is to get it wrong once in a while.

Putting faith in one man is not going to achieve anything. Getting people to put faith into and embracing good ideas from that one man is what makes him a leader. If 3.5% of the country's population put faith into these ideas then you can make a lot of changes. If everyone that voted for Obama puts forth an effort to change and make this country a better place than there is no stopping this nation or what it can do. If we sit around and wait to be rescued by some stimulus package or a government bailout than we better pray because nothing can help us.