Barack Obama: The Change You Promised Is Happening

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"Change we can believe in", Obama's campaign slogan is beginning to come true, but with no thanks to him.

Change is happening because of the people - not the politics as usual - Obama's administration is operating under.  The recent election of Brown to the Senate in Massachusetts is a signal and one I am sure the Democrats are looking at very seriously.

Here is another indication of change which I believe is a result of the people which has instilled some fear into the halls of Congress. 
Opposition Grows Against Second Term for Bernanke by Sewell Chan as published in the New York Times

The confirmation of Ben S. Bernanke to a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve ran into further trouble on Friday as two more Democratic senators said they would vote against him.

Even Harry Reid is not sure how he will vote.  That's right, I said Harry Reid.  Another Democrat - Senator Barbara Boxer of California - who is up for re election this year - also is against reconfirming Bernanke.  She says;

she had “a lot of respect” for him and praised him for preventing the economic crisis from getting even worse. “However, it is time for a change,” she said. “It is time for Main Street to have a champion at the Fed.”“Our next Federal Reserve chairman must represent a clean break from the failed policies of the past,” (emphasis added)

“Our next Federal Reserve chairman must represent a clean break from the failed policies of the past,”

Democrats and Republicans alike (and they are so much alike) are making "change" a reality.  Why?  Because they are in fear of not being re elected to the best job with the best benefits this country has to offer.  They are suddenly in fear of the public and fear on their part is good.  As Thomas Jefferson said, "When the people fear the government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people there is liberty".

...opposition to Mr. Bernanke has emerged from both the left and the right, as anger has mounted over the Fed’s extraordinary interventions in the market in 2008 — which have been lumped together with the huge bailouts of big financial institutions — and over the perceived regulatory failings of the Fed in the years preceding the crisis.

Change, Mr. President, is happening but as I said earlier, no thanks to you.  It is apparent that somehow you, who ran as an outsider, became an insider very quickly.  I guess that when you took residency in "our" White House that someone gave you the rules of the road. But whoever that someone may be, the will of the people will eventually succeed.  We have let this cycle run for far too long, we are angry and we are beginning to do something about it. 

This economic crisis is probably just what the people needed as their wake up call.  We have watched our freedoms erode steadily for many years but we are awake, make no mistake about that.

The undercurrent of a bloodless revolt is certainly out there.  Even with the Supreme Courts ruling the other day allowing corporations to advertise - with unlimited or regulated amounts of money - the people will still prevail.  Corporatins and politicians alike - BEWARE.
 
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