Cheering for America losing its bid for the olympics and booing for the president of our country winning the world's highest honor does not make you a patriot. It makes you a delusional Obama hater that is putting your hatred for a man over the reality of the situation.
People act like being president means you have the power of a dictator to enact the change you want to see happen. There are three branches of government, and a whole lot of bereaucratic red tape involved in any real change. Right now, I believe he is trying, he has not given me a reason to believe otherwise. If when he leaves office, nothing has changed and it turns out that all he turned out to be was a bunch of empty rhetoric, then I will join in on the calls of tar and feather and will accept any "I told you so's" that are thrown my way.
But hell, it takes a drug addict years to recover from addiction, it takes a new football coach more than a year to turn a failing program around, and it takes a parent more than a year to put their children on the path to success...why do people expect the president to be able to do the same for a NATION on the brink of collapse in less time?
Obama's detractors are quick to point out that he is NOT a deity like many are building him up to be...I agree. So why do they act surprised when he isn't able to perform miracles.
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