YOU Vs. Michele Bachmann & Barack Obama

Politicians fight for position on the career ladder. They fight for personal power and gain in the game of running a country and the every day movements that affect the lives of non-politician citizens. They should fight for power and gain for the citizens. Why do only rich people get to become President? Obama has lost favor is a headline one day, Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party are taking control is another day, party versus party on this topic or the next, each side saying the other is out to hurt the American people. All of them are. Hail to the Chief, long live the President! Doesn't that have a nice ceremonial ring to it? Almost royal.

On the grand stage, as of this writing, is Michele Bachmann taking the Iowa Straw polls amongst the Republicans and Obama starting his campaign touring with a lot of ill will towards him. I have listened to his speeches and I have listened to Michele Bachmann's. Maybe they say some different things, but that is all they mostly do: say things. They don't say things about how to fix things, they say motivational catchphrases and conjure up patriotic wet dreams. Why don't politicians say: "Here is exactly what I will do to fix things!" As in a real answer, not a "I will fix things because Washington DC has lost their way and I am the voice of the people!" Well, the reality is the person running might not be all that bright (cough, cough George Bush,) and it is their selected team that comes up with a lot of the "plans." We're trusting them to pick the right people. However, politicians are making the office of President of The United States a moot point. Rub my back I'll rub yours and let's do this rubbing in a big tub of money together. Forget it. It would be nice to have a central figure for leadership, the master tiebreaker in play perhaps, but the feuding of political parties over power has corrupted the system.

I do not vote. In the last election IF I voted I would have sided with Obama over John McCain. I would probably have sided with Jack Kevorkian over either of them. In the election before that I would have sided with George Bush. In the one before that I would have also sided with George Bush. (Why, is an entirely other article altogether, but there was a reason and a method to my madness of thinking.) I was raised in a severely conservative area of the United States; Republican all the way. However, I have never felt affiliated with one side or the other. Obama has done some things I am happy with. I can see the ideals behind some of his speeches, the pipedreams of a better world overall, the aspirations there. I guess nothing much got implemented though. To lay all of the pressure on one man and act like it is his dog and pony show is silly. The government as a whole makes the decisions generally. Michele Bachmann would be just as silly as Obama. More so, because she's got the crazy eye that one. The crazy head really. And on a personal note: I think she looks like a demon. However, if as the process goes along I hear her say things that seem like ideas I would like to see implemented, I might just be accepting of a crazy-headed demon. Probably not.

No one holds the same ideals, the same morals, the same opinions. Politicians are asked to appease the masses and the masses are always going to be divided. It is an impossible task to please everyone. Please, quit letting the campaigning and media pandering decide your votes for you. Listen for answers to the problems not just empty motivational speeches. Sure it takes a team to find solutions, but the candidates wanting to be President should already be working with teams, with brilliant individuals focused on fixing the country, NOT just winning an election. YOU are the president, vote accordingly.