by Dave Knechel

Created on: October 05, 2008

Change. Change. Change. Rhetoric. Rhetoric. Rhetoric. Change We Need. Of course, there will be change soon. George W. Bush will no longer, can no longer, be president. No doubt about it, he will go down in history as a very unpopular president and rightfully so. After all, who ignores the citizens that elect you, only to shoot from the hip because you know better than millions of voters? Global,

schmobal. Who needs it? Well, the voters are about ready to make a decision regarding who our next president will be and I think it will be Barack Obama. Why? Because he is the one who really espouses change. What change, I ask? The mere fact that someone new must hold court in the Oval Office represents change and the most significant change I see is his relative youth and vitality and how plenty of Americans want to throw out the old school presidency. W belongs to it because he brought stale ideas with him. Same old stuff. It's one of the reasons why Putin morphed himself into tough guy Bush, only the Russian version. I mean, he doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks and in the end, neither did Bush. I hope that is why we have candidates who seem to be more sensitive to the wants and needs of ordinary Americans. At least, that's what they say they stand for and I pray it's true.

So, Barack Obama represents change, but is it going to be true change or some sort of political stew newly packaged with fresh appeasement instead of canned? To his flock, including devout atheists, he seems to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, a savior out to reconcile and truly make right the sins of George W. Bush and all other presidents, Republican, in particular; and the visionary who will turn an entire country into one of tithers to his brand of distilled religion and socialistic nationalism. Witness his acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium, his latter day interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount. Why is it he can preach openness and change yet deplore those who have the audacity to criticize him? The man has a temper. Well, maybe not as bad as John McCain's, but McCain can take criticism. The problem with him, though, is that same old, same old mindset. He's a veritable clone of George W. Bush, so Obama says, and that seems to be his main mantra of evangelical fervor. Only, I have a problem with it. Sure, Obama has fresher, newer ideas, but when he burst onto the scene, he said he was not your typical politician. Out with the old and in with the new. Why then, does he

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