Preview: Obama may tank faster than the Titanic.

He is championing the right causes but…
Put simply, people are not as gullible as they used to be.

On the war front:
The administration is expanding our wars on and off budget,
increasing the use of agencies like Prince’s Blackwater militia in areas
like Afghanistan. Blackwater is part of the CIA assassination program
which uses a private militia to fill in where official government action
could be called into question. They operate above the law, courtesy
of policies established in the Bush administration, and they cost
at least 10 times what our own military personnel would cost.
And the deaths of their forces don’t enter into “official” statistics.

On the health front:
It is hard for many Americans NOT to hold obese people
or drug addicts or people with unwanted pregnancies responsible
for their condition. While aids has lost steam as a major contributor
to death in our nation, to fight the disease costs a fortune and it is hard NOT to hold the indiscriminate drug user or sex deviant responsible for the consequences of their actions. People who live on Big Macs and dingdongs at the expense of their bodies earn little sympathy from those who protect their body’s health with a proper diet. Unwanted pregnancies are a result of raging hormones, but are also a result of a disgusting head in the sand approach to sex education on the part of our government. The backward facing Bush administration and religious communities can be held directly responsible for the lack of responsible sex education but we all share the burden of these irresponsible policies.

We can’t trust the government to solve our problems since they are in many respects enablers. We can’t expect “for profit” businesses like insurance companies not to capitalize on opportunities created by our own personal lack of self discipline or self-respect.

So our only answer is to rely upon ourselves, our own good judgment,
and the hope that wisdom and experience will win out.

Geez we are in trouble.