Time For A Change

There is a side of Obama who is modest...conservative, limited, and reasonable. This, coupled with his intelligence, is what separates him from Bush. Bush is arrogant, and cocky. One of the reasons I, and many others, voted for Obama, was this sense of modesty. But there is another side to Obama, an arrogant side. And I do not find arrogance (his or Bush's) inherently alarming. I prefer it to mousiness in a President. But now is not the time for arrogance and overreach. I hope and wish Obama can summon his modest/reasonable side, especially since the temptation in these troubling times is to act bold.

A bad sign is his call for a college football playoff. In matters such as this, Obama must learn the power of silence. He must know if when he speaks, it is news. Now headlines read: "Obama calls for college football playoffs." This is government at it's worst, poking it's nose into things that don't matter. It is a sign of arrogance and overreach and general stupidity.

And it totally doesn't matter. But his economic plan does. And borrowing money from ourselves is consenting to opening up another credit card to pay this months rent. Hardly a move to get excited about. Another example of kicking the can down the road. Hardly the "change" we were expecting. It sounds like more - much more - of the same to me.