New Hampshire is Just The Beginning

The first three election caucuses and primary elections represent less than ½ of 1% of the total population of our nation.  Despite this small number, the pundits and talk show hosts have delivered the final results.  They have almost told us who the next president will be.

I disagree with the idea that they know any more than me or any of my friends and acquaintances.  Everyone seemed to believe that Barak Obama would win today’s New Hampshire Democratic primary well ahead of Hillary Clinton.  Now that we know the results it will be difficult to believe anything those pundits say. 

I changed my political party affiliation after voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in October of 2003.  I had been a Democrat during all of my previous adult life. The reality was that the previous governor, Gray Davis (D), was doing an incompetent job.  It was obvious that a change was necessary.  Now that I am not part of either political party I can really evaluate the pros and cons of all the candidates.  It has been a refreshing experience.

The following entry was posted on a news blog in a response to a news item about Barak Obama’s growing popularity in the polls.  The writing may not be perfect but the thought could be a worthwhile guide to America’s thought processes.  

Talk is cheap. Obama is inexperienced and America is less intelligent than I even thought if we buy into this man who does not have any new ideas or specifics about what he will do as President other than to say lets change and hope for better things. To me this shows that he is naive and this is the real world.

He speaks in generalities and as the law professor that he was in the past. America is basically an optimistic country, but it does no good when it can not be enacted. Obama is a talker and not a doer.

I hope (good huh?) that America sends him back to the U.S. Senate and let him vote and take a stand on issues and work through what he really believes in, then come back and try again from President. Times are too serious for his rookie status and the impression that he is God come back to save us all.  dmw, roeland park,ks