by Tim Daughtry

Created on: August 18, 2009   Last Updated: August 22, 2009

Answering the question of what America needs should start with the people, not the President, not the media, not with Congress, but with the people. This is where the question should end as well. "Let's take a vote" - famous last words. But very effective when you want to know what this country needs. Imagine what would happen to this health care fiasco if we simply took a vote not from Congress, (in fact they've lost their right to vote, they do such a poor job of it) but a vote from the people. This rush to recreate the wheel, the health care wheel for instance, and go into more debt for something that the American people don't want, would be history if we simply let the people vote and then did what they voted for. But you watch, our esteemed Congressmen and women will suffer through these town hall meetings which they think are radical, simply because they can't believe that anyone would not agree with them, they will go back to Washington and vote however they please- and then have the arrogance to falsely claim "that's what the people of this country want, that's what we need."

Our President ran and won the presidency based on his often-quoted theme of "change." But that's not what our country needed either. At least not change just for the sake of change. It has to be a change from something to something, not just change. And I hate to admit it but the changes this president has made and still wants to make are based on random change just for the sake of "mixing it up." He's like a young kid who just got his license to drive. He's got a license but no experience. And when you're the President you shouldn't be learning the job as you go, at the expense of our country. We are not an experiment. We are people, with families, with savings, with hopes and futures. For someone to be "playing at being president" just because he can't get over the fact that he actually won, is not what we need in a president. This president might be the most eloquent president since Lincoln or Kennedy but he's no leader and he has no clue what he's doing. But he's certainly changed things, there's no denying that.

So what's the truest indicator of what this country might need? Is it a more balanced media? That's not going to happen fast enough. TV networks that historically represented the news as objectively as possible have only a few remaining networks that honestly and fairly report the news. And when the press is tampered with and becomes biased

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