If you know me, you know it's a Friday night, my wife and son are sleeping, and I still have a few hours left in me. My night of Bill and Ted watching has reached its final climax.
If you know me, you know I've been drinking.
This is Liberty With Reason. Welcome.
For the past few years, I've struggled with my political affiliation. While being a Libertarian sounds like a good idea, I can't ignore the fact that everyone needs Health Care, and that Climate Change is a reality. So as the Tea Party holds its first convention with Sarah Palin as its guest speaker, I publish my first blog on my new website.
The guest speaker: Me; however, all guests are welcome.
If you know me, you know this will blog will deal primarily with politics. I will also tackle sports from time to time, and share my experiences as a first-time father (how exciting, I know.)
I'm going to get the initial conversation started by saying I did vote for our current president, and after one year, I'm happy I did. Has he successfully passed any health care reform? No. Is Guatanamo Bay still open? Unfortunately. Is the War in Iraq over? Not yet. Did he escalate the War in Afghanistan? Yes, and I'm glad he did.
He wants to continue the Bush Administration policy of trying terrorists in civilian courts, and suddenly, the Republicans disagree. I say, go for it, but I know you won't.
As for Domestic Spying, the PATRIOT Act and our overall civil liberties the Bush Administration stole from us, these issues have yet to be acknowledged by the Obama Administration, and as long as the media has forgotten about them, they never will be.
As for the economy, just one politician could really have solved our problem, and the Republicans failed to nominate him.
So after a year, Barack Obama has done exactly one thing I wanted him to, while driving our economy into a hole most politicians would've dragged us into. Still, for the most part, I would say we're no worse off with Obama than we would've been had anyone else been elected, and that includes Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr, etc. Obama is proving to be President as usual, which is better than the Execution Artists we had before this.
Thoughts?
