An Obama Nation – Are You Ready For Some Change…Really?
So the election results are official…no hanging chads, recounts, or other such nonsense. Barack Obama will now be the next president elect of our United States of America. This is one for the history books and it was definitely an exciting and drama filled campaign to observe.
I believe the overwhelming and undisputed theme of this election would be “Change”, because the state of things now evidently sucks and something needs to “change”. There are about a million sound-bytes out there of Obama as well as other candidates preaching how they will bring “change” to our country, thereby implying that everything will be better under their leadership.
So for the record, I am in agreement…something does need to “change”, but the word itself is rather ambiguous. My own experience in business indicates that people generally do not like “change” even in the worst conditions…it is scary, sometimes painful, many times disastrous, and often times beneficial. You either embrace it or hate it, but either way it rarely goes as planned.
When it comes to “change”, you have to crawl before you can walk, walk before you can run, run before you fly… then warp, beam, and so on. We all experience some form of “change” on a daily basis from the most inane to the more dramatic, and if we aren’t careful too much change too quickly can be dangerous…even deadly. Lets take a look at the spectrum…
The most simple “changes” are generally the most important…
just this morning, I “changed” my underwear (which I hope everyone does…unless you just don’t wear any at all)
I thought about playing hooky from work, but as usual…I “changed” my mind.
On the way to work I “changed” lanes, “changed” radio stations, “changed” direction, and even “changed” air temperature.
In the past I have “changed” diets, diapers, beds, channels, hair color, tastes, opinions, products, hands, blah, blah, blah…
Some more important “changes” that many of us have had to make in our life that require a bit more adjusting to…
Changing College Majors
Change of Jobs or employment status (This one can really SUCK)
Changing cars
Changing cities or homes
Change of religion or churches
Change in relationships
Turn it up a bit more and you have “change” that many have experienced and many have not, and these are things that can deeply impact a lifestyle for better or for worse…
A change of financial condition (Maybe from having money to having none, or from having no money to having lots)
Change in personal health/wellness
Change of Marital Status (which is different than relationships)
And even more dramatic that most of us have never experienced…
A change in culture and the way we live our lives
A change in gender…because some people are just trapped in the wrong body. (but not me, I’m good with mine)
A change in government and political infrastructure
A change in environment
So I think of the changes that Russians went through, that the Afghani people have gone through … Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Aborigines, Native Americans, and a whole plethora of ancient cultures that once ruled the world and are no longer here.
And I think to myself…’change is good’. While it may not seem that way to those whose life status changed from alive to dead, or from employed to unemployed, etc. I do believe that all “change” happens for some kind of reason. Whether that reason be to improve on a current situation or provide for some kind of lesson in “what not to do”, each “change” will incur some kind of effect on the scale mentioned above and thereby force adaption.
Other countries around the world are celebrating our new found victory and leadership…they want us to change too. Therefore, in the spirit of “Change” I say “Bring It!” This country is obviously starving for a big steaming heap of “change” of the seriously sweeping and dramatic kind, and we want it as quickly as possible. We know that “change” takes time, but we are a culture that needs instant gratification, and that is one thing that won’t change….We are ready now, now, now! Give us a shot of change…lay it on us, make us feel it, lift us up and change our big fat flat tires, because we are sucking some serious air and going nowhere. Please “change” our big American diaper because we are getting a bad rash and no one wants to be near us….*&^%$^& AAAAIIIIIIGGGHHHHHhhhh!…… hrm… queue a little Ziggy Stardust please.
You got your change, buddy. And look at what the clown has done now. Not only has he NOT PROVIDED his birth certificate, he has successfully driven it 6 feet under. And what came with the dirty cat? All his buddys, Barney Rubble, Cris Dudd, and Rolf Emanuel, all smelling of garbage just like your good friend the change buddy. Well, you fokkers deserve this guy for the four years you have him. Then you’ll really want some change.
Comment by TheMojo |
April 15, 2009
Thanks for the comment mojo, but for the record, I didn’t get my change.
You see…I didn’t vote for Obama, and never would have. I still don’t know who he is or what he may do. Its a mystery, but he evidently had the intelligence and charm to get enough voters drinking his kool-aid. But there is no Kool-aid drinking mustache on this old chap.
The whole premise of my post is how the word “change” was used by all of the politicians in the race as nothing more than a “hot” word that was empty and devoid of specific meaning, especially from the “clown” as you referred to him.
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You got your change, buddy. And look at what the clown has done now. Not only has he NOT PROVIDED his birth certificate, he has successfully driven it 6 feet under. And what came with the dirty cat? All his buddys, Barney Rubble, Cris Dudd, and Rolf Emanuel, all smelling of garbage just like your good friend the change buddy. Well, you fokkers deserve this guy for the four years you have him. Then you’ll really want some change.
Thanks for the comment mojo, but for the record, I didn’t get my change.
You see…I didn’t vote for Obama, and never would have. I still don’t know who he is or what he may do. Its a mystery, but he evidently had the intelligence and charm to get enough voters drinking his kool-aid. But there is no Kool-aid drinking mustache on this old chap.
The whole premise of my post is how the word “change” was used by all of the politicians in the race as nothing more than a “hot” word that was empty and devoid of specific meaning, especially from the “clown” as you referred to him.