What America really voted for

So the Republicans, the Democrats and the media have all been repeating that American voters went to the polls last November and voted for "Change".  Now they are all whining, some more than others, about what kind of change we are getting from President Obama's Administration.

•  The Republicans want us to believe that President Obama is just like George Bush. 
  
• The Democrats want us to believe that President Obama is just like them.
  
• The media want us to believe that President Obama is just like every other politician so we shouldn't expect more. 
  

Their minds are fixed and they want us to be fixed in our judgments as well.  After all, the President has been in office for 50 days now so of course we know how the next four years will turn out; right?  Excuse me while I scream....AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!   Okay, I feel better now. 

Do you see what is happening after only the first 50 days?  Everyone is re-writing the playbook, telling us what we voted for and despite our protests--as seen on Facebook, LinkedIn, Huffington Post, Jack Cafferty, ABC, NBC, CBS and yes even on FOX (sorry I can't bring myself to provide a link to this one)--they haven't a clue that "Change" is not at the heart of what we voted for!  On November 4, Americans went to the polls in droves to vote for HOPE!  We had spent nearly the entire 8 years of the Bush Administration mired in fear.  The last 6 months of his Administration we had fear and despair...we listened to John McCain and heard more of the same.  Americans said boldly that we wanted something different, we wanted a change but not just change for the sake of change.  We wanted HOPE!  

Hope that we could be better.  Hope that we could do better.  Hope that we could be the United States of America that the world respected and that we as her citizens could be proud to claim. Now I know some people will be offended by the previous sentence about Americans being proud to claim our country--I remember very well the nonsense that was generated by a deliberate misunderstanding of Michelle Obama's statement about pride--so let me clarify that by proud I am using the term according to its definition to mean uplifted.  So to put it plainly, it is a spiritual uplift to dream of an America that truly represents the equality and freedom dreamt of in our Declaration of Independence. 

How do American's reclaim the truth of our vote?  Well first I suggest ignoring the pundits and the media who are nattering on and on about "not the change we voted for" because they are idiotic and wrong.  Then write, email and call our representatives and the media out on this lie.  And finally...talk, share, discuss and scream every time you see any of these groups trying to steal the truth of our vote.   Maybe if enough people shout loud enough and long enough...the Republicans, Democrats and media will get the message!