Posted by
Gregory Noelck on Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:41:37 AM
In post election discourse a recurrent theme of Obama supporters has been that the “Right” is busy attacking the president elect before he officially takes the helm and its inherent counter-productivity. This ignores a very important point. While the voting majority of America did choose Obama, 46 percent of, or roughly 57,500,000, voters did not. Telling these citizens they must now swallow their objections to an Obama administration seems obtuse at best. In essence the message of “objections made irrelevant by majority decision” contradicts the fundamental purpose of the republic. In any time, much less volatile times, manifold public duty includes holding elected officials to account. Regardless of which candidate one picked it would be irresponsible and civically apathetic to not question the decisions and actions of any elected official. To blindly trust is to seek a destiny of failure. For the past eight years there has been a stunning display of overt hate, disrespect, and vulgarity towards President Bush and the Republican Party. Now in an unashamed demonstration of hypocrisy, a double standard is being handed to Americans stating that, contrary to the hypercriticism of President Bush, it is now unfair to critique and criticize vis-a-vis Barak Obama’s stated intentions and current actions. Perhaps the change that America really needs is the clear logical thinking of American polity. Perhaps then and only then will we be moving America forward once again. If we truly are the change we have been waiting for, why are we placing so much emphasis on a president and his administration that will be one day be changed by yet another successor?