Am I Crazy?

ON SEPT. 11 ANNIVERSARY, RIFTS AMID MOURNING: The ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was marked on Saturday by the memorials and prayer services of the past, but also by events hard to envision just a year ago — heated demonstrations blocks from ground zero, political and religious tensions and an unmistakable sense that a once-unifying day was now replete with division. The names of nearly 3,000 victims were read under crisp blue skies in Lower Manhattan after the bells of the city’s houses of worship tolled at the exact moment — 8:46 a.m. — that the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center. At the Pentagon, President Obama called for tolerance and said, “As Americans we are not — and never will be — at war with Islam.”

It is just my imagination or have the promises of Obama being a unifyer and a game-changer gone totally unfulfilled? I obviously can't blame Obama for the Koran-burning and all this stuff, but it gets at this false campaign idea of "hope and change." What hope and change? What is different now? How are we morally superior now than four years ago? How are we more unified? I just don't see any evidence of "progress." I see more anxiety. More stupidity. More rules. More nonsense.