“Hope & Change” has become a political slogan joke in America, though not yet so in my country Indonesia. As Obama’s Presidency unfolds, Indonesians may learn, as the Americans have, how the joke was formulated through the comedy that Obama himself staged as his way of governing. Consequently, for Obama’s supporters, the slogan has become a burden of proof.

People everywhere fall into catchy wordings that don’t last in the political world.
Michael Jackson’s song “Black or White” is an example of the public’s entrapment by words. The nuance of “Hope & Change “is likened to that of “Black or White”; it is simple and to the point. No need for Shakespearean English mastery to nod your head and shake your body in understanding the words.

If politics and governance can be staged by dancing and singing, and excellence is judged by how hysterical the audience is; then the “Hope & Change” hysteria falls into that grading. Imagine the crowd; steaming in the spirit of “Hope” and teeming into the ecstasy of “Change.”

No need to define this “Hope & Change”, because there is none. As it was with hysterical dancing and singing of “Black or White”; the feeling of the moment is what counts.

Meanwhile, the burden of realizing the promises of “Hope & Change” has becoming a horrid task for Obama’s supporters to wear.

Their opponents have succeeded in comically portraying “Hope & Change” into the public’s negative opinion. The widened ridiculous perception of the slogan has cheered these people into joyous a vindictive mood, crediting their solid conviction in the nothingness of “Hope & Change.”

It solidifies and simplifies the opposition movement in revealing the absurdity of intoxicated hysterics in entitling the supremacy of “Hope & Change”. This is the time that one may as well dance and sing “Black or White” to momentously end political hysteria of any sort.

“Hope & Change” proved hysteria never works well in politics, while in entertainment, it lives on. “Black or White” was the tribute song to Michael Jackson in Indonesia played on the day of his passing; saluting the man’s accomplishment and his musical talents.

In the meantime, “Hope & Change” has blundered into a satire, with no triumphant moment to celebrate. Obama’s Presidency rests on his materializing the “Hope & Change”, but his erring in erratic judgments and decisions in so little time has evaporated the mighty spirits he once offered to the public. No doubt, Obama and his supporters will have to find a meaningful slogan for their 2012 campaign, to override the hysterical joke of “Hope & Change.”
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This day in history November 8

1932 Socialism in America has its first big victory with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt who went on to violate the unwritten rule of presidents serving only two consecutive terms by being reelected in 1940 and again in 1944.

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Entrepreneurs create wealth, but bureaucrats want to manage it. Knowing how destructive it can be to the entrepreneur’s revenue if they fail to follow the bureaucrat’s guideline, they then submissively do so. The bureaucrats have no fear, the entrepreneurs do; the first produces no money and takes it from the second. Logically, those who give money should be in position to fear others, not in this case. Furthermore, the entrepreneurs gifts in wealth creation is a matter of the State’s welfare, thus that talent must be utilized for that sole purpose. In my worst nightmare scenario, I wonder: is this what happening in America?

Seriously, didn’t America choose Barack Obama to be its President? This man represents that Bureaucrat, his visions and goals are simple: the people’s wealth are his to redistribute, thus the entrepreneurs mind are his to utilize. However, the recent successful Tea Party movement suggests American’s are reacting negatively toward his plans. Honestly, Barack Obama should be the President of the Republic of Indonesia, where the people are accustomed to his way of thinking, thus will submissively allow his implementing his thoughts. In my best dream yet to come, I ponder: is America fighting to regain its true identity?

Americans love private enterprise, daring to fail and trying again; capitalism nurtures those characters. Entrepreneur’s invisible mind is not in the hand of bureaucrats; they hold the power of that wealth creation and produce the country’s prosperity. When this mind decides to stop producing, it then halts jobs creation, thus economic growth; the fundamental of prosperity. The overreached hands of bureaucrats to interfere in this process have antagonized those minds. It is not poverty that Americans can not endure; it is the fight to come out of poverty that drives their spirits. The Great Depression ended with America’s economic powering the world; with the recent massive opposition to the bureaucratization of American businesses, I doubt the Great Recession we are in now would end that position. I wonder: what is it you are hoping to change, Mr. President?

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This day in history November 1

1915 Parris Island is officially designated as the East Coast United States marine Recruit Depot (boot camp). Note: 50 years later your editor spent the summer of his twentieth year as a “boot” on Parris Island. Semper Fi and Ooh Rah! to my Marine brothers and sisters.

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The concept of fairness to all is an endless slogan in Indonesia. The Government’s aim is to make sure the rich submissively share their wealth while the poor are entitled to take it. In so doing, they will make sure that the Government is rich so then the sharing of wealth is in their control. The Government will then declare their nobility in their entitlement programs to ensure the people do not detect this method as deceitful and manipulative. Seriously, I never thought I would say this, but America has become the country I left behind: Indonesia. How could that be?

Americans must think the Indonesian Government way of managing a nation was the right approach. No, I am not crazy for saying this; did not this country elect the most Socialist man to be its President: Barack Obama?

Americans must believe that they would benefit from Socialism, otherwise why would they put their country backwards? Or are these people that naïve not to realize what they were signing up for? No, it is the first reason. These Americans either did not play a significant role in bringing prosperity to the country and wanted a piece of it anyway, or made so much wealth for themselves and wanted to keep it all. Socialism fills their purposes.

Socialism needs two classes of people to thrive: the lazy and the greedy. The system only needs one enabler: Government. It then entices the lazy with its Welfare and protects the greedy with its Regulations. Here’s how American Socialism is at its best: so then no lazy image is painted, their welfare is created through ACORN and SEIU alike. So then the greedy image is not fancied, their regulations are made through “Social Security” and the next enchilada “Health Care Reform”; none of these Laws can easily be repealed, thus discouraging people to retaliate.

Through this Socialism, America has become a Big Government Nation. Hasn’t Washington DC now decided how taxes should be accumulated and allocated? What happen to States rights?

Well, no wonder, Barack Obama was able to use his “magic” and his charm through to election; Socialism had taken its shaped well before he showed up. It is up to true Americans to regain their country: I can’t be the only one with that motivation.

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This day in history October 24

1917 The “October Revolution” starts and later becomes known as The Red Revolution

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