HOPE-AHOLICS AND THE DEM'S NEW W

By Guest Blogger Jay Floyd

I love hope. Truly I do. I love dreams and lofty aspirations. I'm a screenwriter -- it's the world I work in.

It's not where I live. I live in a real country called The United States of America -- and it's a country that is in real, not imagined, trouble.

I cannot understand Obamamania. I understand that Barak is a fine speaker, that we know. But the jump from impressive orator to effective leader cannot be substantiated in any real way. His popularity has taken on all the characteristics of a fad. There's too much at stake for our country right now to take a monumental chance on an unexamined and untested leader. No matter what kind of conversation I have with an Obama supporter, it always ends in the exact same place: "He makes me feel like there's hope for a better America."

Voting for a candidate because of the way they make you feel? Hmm. I think that was the reason why a genuinely bad man has been in office for the last two terms. He made people feel 'all homey'... and down the tubes the country went. Unfortunately, that 'feeling' Obama gives us won't change a thing. Hope is, at the end of the day, morphine for the disillusioned. I love it too -- but it will kill you if you mistake for an actual answer to any problem.

That's why I fear that Obama is the Democrat's version of W -- no evidence that he can get a thing done, but he sure makes us feel good. It's almost as if my beloved Dem's are pitching a Texan Teenager's Temper Tantrum, "They got to elect an under-qualified President, WHY CAN'T WEEEEE???".

Do Obama's supporters think that his occupation of the Oval Office will really change a thing about conservatives and their values? Think about it. No -- shut up, quit cheering like you have front row seats to the American Idol finale, and think about it. THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA OF GREED AND INHUMANITY WILL CHANGE WHEN THEY'RE DEAD. Not before. The same could be said of our beliefs. But Obama is not magic.

It will be quite a quandary for me should Obama become the nominee. I can't vote for the Republicans in view, and I think voting Independent is throwing your vote away when you believe in the Democratic party. I may like the man -- I really don't know, because all we see is his show rather than his humanity. If this were the end of the 8 years of Bill Clinton and we weren't at war and our finances weren't in shambles, I'd be more inclined to take a chance on an idealist. But now is no such time.

There's a wise old saying, folks: Pray for rain and grab a hoe.

Hillary is that hoe, however unfortunate the pun.

Please use your head and vote for Hillary Clinton. Your heart will thank you when you see the country that comes.