“Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.”
(Former President Bill Clinton)
As a young American with conservative views, I believe that President Barack Obama entered his term as the President of the United States of America wanting to change overnight decades of issues that have plagued our nation. His “Change” platform created hope in many Americans but the platform was fueled by verbal promises that did not have hard facts or resources to ensure these promises could be executed. We as Americans must always understand that America is the great country that it is because we are composed of a melting pot of people. Yes, our country has and still experiences prejudices and hardships towards minorities, but thanks to leaders such as, Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and others, many minorities have equal rights that were not afforded in the past. Our votes, which is a privilege, has turned into a routine process for Americans where we vote, watch the elections, and don’t hold those we elect accountable for the day to day decisions that will shape and mold our country. Because many of us have not held our elected officials responsible for their decisions, decisions were made that were harming us as citizens but many of those decisions harmfulness would not be surfacing until later (like today). Now our country is plagued at trying to find solutions to rectify many bad decisions that have created a dark whole for our nation. Once a whole this large has been created, the citizens look to the president to lead us to new solutions and rectifications. But we also are hoping and depending on our leader to use facts and resources to ensure that the solutions provided will render possible results that can be calculated.
I say all of this to say that although President Barack Obama is a great orator and gives hope through his speeches, I feel that his programs do not have enough facts and resources to predict an outcome that will help to uproot America from the dark holes past decisions have created in order to lead us towards the greater nation we were centuries prior. A great leader understands how to work with others and compromise in order to make decisions. And if we as the American people feel that those individuals that we elected to make these decisions are not speaking for the majority nor have their own agenda; it is our duties as American citizens to speak up and work to remove them from office. If we as American citizens do not start holding our elected officials accountable for their decisions, then we will find our great nation turn into a nation that will be dependent on others for economic, innovative, and natural resources that we no longer have the means to produce for ourselves. We need to have leaders who gather a team of people that will not be yes people to those they serve, but do their job proficiently enough that if it requires them to question decisions; they will.
All in all, is the President (Barack Obama) moving this country into the right direction, right now I don’t see a positive move towards a hopeful future but I hope that time will prove me wrong and we start to see remnants of greatness forthcoming for the United States of America.
