Why Obama won

A friend of mine was pointing out that Obama won so that must mean that most of the country is liberal, to which I replied:\

Let me break it down for you one time. John McCain is a moderate, some would say he isn’t much of a conservative at all, but I digress. The GOP ran a campaign trying to appeal to the middle and the left. Why do you think the conservative talk radio shows all hated McCain from the beginning but made due after he had the nomination? Barack Obama ran a campaign of change and middle income tax cuts, which is clearly a conservative campaign. Given that the supposed conservative candidate ran as a liberal and the liberal candidate ran as a Conservative it is no wonder he won. So no, your premise is sort of misguided. Obama ran about as middle of the road and leaning to the right as he could, because he knew he would get all the liberal vote, because true liberals will NEVER, and I mean NEVER vote for a Republican candidate. This is about as certain as death and taxes, period.

There was a gal on TV and the host asked her if Obama did a terrible job if she would vote for the GOP candidate and her response was no, cementing the point. For liberals it is all about being in control. They don’t care if the person that is in control is a total idiot and doing a bad job, they just want the power. History bears this out repeatedly. Oh, by the way, plenty of republicans voted for Obama. Republicans have no problem voting their conscious, they are not about the power, but doing what is best for the country, and many in the republican party did not want McCain to win.

The reason Obama won was because he told people what they wanted to hear. It really is that simple. You could ask 10 different people from all over the US what Obama is going to do and they would give you 10 different answers because he appealed to what they wanted to hear, so everyone had a different idea. He said he was about change and hope. He sold them a bill of goods. He preached that Bush was bad and was to blame, which anyone that knows anything about the mess we are in will tell you is a joke, but Bush Hating is a disease and many are afflicted with it. It is a very slick technique in politics, find a common enemy and then blame everyone’s plight on that enemy. Hitler used the same technique to rise to power as well, the big lie.

Since Obama has been in office he has changed almost none of the Bush policies that were in place the last 4 years or more. If they were so bad why didn’t he change them all? Because the truth is they weren’t, that’s why.

Obama has the distinction of presiding over the worst ever first six weeks of any presidency when it comes to the market. The market is a forward predictor and is almost never wrong, so what does that tell you about Obama? Be in denial, refuse to see the truth, it is up to you, but the facts are the facts, no emotion just the facts. I believe Obama will go down in history as the worst president we ever had, and Jimmy Carter is jumping for joy, because he can move to No. 2.