Election Day and Changing Times

Two years agao, with a Democrat controlled house and senate, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'change.' He never successfully or honestly defined the exact nature of his changes, or mentioned that they would cost us the whole economy. He never seemed able to reconnect with the people as president as he did as candidate Obama.

At the time of his election I was reading the Marvel comics storyline about the death of Captain America. The original run of this story started in 2006 as the ending of the 'Civil War' story arc that ran throughout all Marvel titles.

At the time I felt as if America itself had died. Here was a president who's wife was never proud of America, and a man who did not share the core values of 75% of all Americans and immigrants who come here. I thought it was the beginning of the end of good days for our country, our people, and businesses great and small.

Now, not quite two years later, Pres. Obama has so thoroughly disaffected three quarters of 'The Sleeping Giant,' the average American working person, that a historic change of power is taking place today, election day 2010.

And, in the comics, Captain America is back, alive and well!

I'm feeling good that, if 'you,' whoever you are with extremist politics and greedy government expansion in mind, push us too far, we will take you out of power.

I also observe that fiscally conservative Republican candidates are not taking over because people are for them: they are taking over because people are against Democrats as exemplified by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. It is now up to us to keep these new Republicans from being conscripted into that 'old politics' system that buys and owns them and their votes. Unless they want us to elect our first series of third party candidates in 2012, they had better truly represent the interests of their constituents and nothing else.

Thank God I live in America, where tearing down a 'Berlin' Wall' of politics doesn't take 60 years to accomplish. We really do live in the greatest nation on earth, the most exceptional, the brightest with opportunity, and the most responsive to the needs of the people.

Long live America!