Message Board Topic:  How does the Barack Obama election change America

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When George W. Bush was elected president in 2000 he probably had no idea of the troubles that would fall upon his administration.  The events of September 11, 2001 changed America indefinitely from the inside.  The events that followed 911 would change the way the rest of the world viewed America from the outside.  George W. Bush's administration was bold and misused the mandate that the world provided to capture the people responsible for 911.  Iraq became the focus based on what is now considered by most people that are honest about the war, as faulty intelligence that was questionable even before the war began.  There was no "real" urgency to enter Iraq.  It was a bad decision.  The decision once made and carried out left patriotic America with a choice of cutting loses and lose the war or to finish it.  America did the right thing in the end as painful as it is for the families that lost their loved ones, we stayed the course and won.  The dilemma that disturbed Americans that once supported President Bush is that they knew they had to stay the course throughout the war even after they realized that the entire war in Iraq was based on lies and propaganda.  Many of those independent thinkers did not vote for the GOP in the 2008 election. It wasn't that McCain would not have made a great president.  It is much more that deep down many Americans felt betrayed and left out of the wealth that was created at so many others expense.  To have to follow the party line that George Bush left in order to gain the GOP nomination in the primaries makes it impossible to win the presidency in the general election.  McCain followed the wrong president.  Seven years have passed and yes Saddam Hussein is dead, however the ones who carried out the attacks and supported al Qaeda are all alive and thriving in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the real battlefield on terrorism.

Ronald Reagan was right when many felt he was wrong.  His vision of trickle down economics was not fictional as many democrats insisted.  Tax cuts need to be tied to job creation and when he gave his tax cuts America prospered for a generation that followed..  George Bush chose two sets of tax cuts that were not tied to job creation.  Don't get me wrong they did create jobs, just not in America.  His tax cuts enabled the wealthy to create jobs in other parts of world where labor is cheaper.  In the state of Ohio where almost a million jobs have been lost since the year 2000, decided last night that a continuation of George Bush's policies of tax breaks for the wealthy with no guarantee of job creation was not the answer they need from their presidential election choice.  The global economy is great for the wealthy but even they understand now that when middle class America no longer is producing goods because it can be done cheaper over seas you can't expect them to keep buying.  The final verdict is that when middle class America are not buying houses, cars, and other goods the American economy is in trouble no matter how much the government tried to deny  the dire situation.  Last night America decided that Barack Obama's idea that tax cuts be tied to job creation rang in the minds of Ohioans and other rust belt areas of the Midwest.  In the end the state of Ohio at around 9:30 decided that they were going for Obama and change. At this point, many realized that Barack Obama would win.  It was not  the GOP call of "Drill Baby Drill"  but the unemployed and suffering of the country that said "Jobs baby Jobs".  America trusts the newly elected American President Barack Obama to do what he said he wants to do.  Get America working again through applying changes that benefit the environment of middle class America.  They are the economy. They buy the cars, the houses, the latest dvd players, TVs, computers, and every other product that drives the American economy.  To say the global economy has been unkind to the working class in America is like saying that ebola is a bad cold.  The global economy has been a disaster for middle class America.  American companies can not use expensive American labor and compete on  the much cheaper global labor market.  It is even more ironic to expect the ones who lost their jobs to continue to buy the products that were made overseas.  I have to think that globalization and the American pursuit of happiness is not a good mix as long as global labor prices are so far apart on the pay scales. 

On energy, America understands that changes have to be made.  To expect a friend of oil to do anything to harm the profits of big oil is a ridiculous notion and George Bush is the best friend "Big Oil" has ever had.  The oil companies are not the enemy neither are the banks.  The enemy is GREED, and that is something that has crippled the American economy.  Hopefully, America can overcome the challenge of energy independence that goes all the way back to the Nixon era.  America can not continue to allow billions of dollars to flow out of our economy to foreign countries even if some are our friends (ie. Mexico and Canada).  We need to overcome foreign dependence on energy. 

In the end America chose a kinder friendlier leadership that at the very least in these tough economic times was able to say the words "I Care about Americans who are suffering".  Is that socialistic?  I hope not.

The election of Barack Obama is not a sign of American weakness abroad militarily.  We are America and always have and always will stand up to tyranny and terrorism no matter who is our president.  It is our mission as a nation.  We will lead the way as a partner in the world and not as big oil or corporate sponsor.  The words from his victory rally in Chicago last night were moving.  He made it clear that "To those that would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security we support you."  He fulfilled the creed of our country of proving once again that America is the beacon of democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.  America can change and has changed very much in the last eight years.  Change will come again over the next four years.  In the end America always has rallied to the cause.  We are a good people, a rare breed that lights up with ideas as if we we were all children.  We will take our black eye from time to time, but in the end we always come back stronger and in a unified way that only the freedom of America can create.

Godspeed President Obama and the American people.