You know those days that everything just feels a bit off, one way or the other.  Well, today I feel like my world is backwards.  It’s 2009 and everything must have dramatically shifted sometime when I was unconscious or something to that effect.  Just a few years ago, the world, much less my world, was a different scene.  I was in high school.  I was living at home (yeehaw!).  Only the huge bulky baseball players were being accused of using steroids.  People were sure Michael Jackson’s career was over.  The U.S. economy was doin’ alright, so I’m told.  I know sometime in the past two years the stocket (stock market) peaked.  The president was white.  The American people didn’t trust or like their government, especially former president George W. Bush.  “Young people” didn’t care too much for national and international affairs aside from P.Diddy telling them to go out and do something.

Today things are just plain opposite.  I’m not in high school anymore.  I live a thousand miles away from home.  Even the overpaid not-that-great baseball player Alex Rodriguez did steroids, and then lied about it.  (Personally, I prefer that all baseball players do steroids, I’d like to see a 1000ft home run sometime.)  And look how great Michael Jackson is doing.  In 2005 his only dates scheduled were court dates, now he has a sold out stint in London, including an extensive contract that we don’t even know how awesome it is.  It really is mindboggeling, but I’m okay with change.  But I’m not so sure about this…

I thought that America would learn…wait, before I continue, I’m going to just explain it.

We all know who won the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.  He ran an amazingly impressive campaign.  His budget for the campaign was as spectacular as his budget proposal is today.  His national tour seemed to be more of some spectacular event put on by AEG or some other promoter.  Every day I was seeing massive crowds at his rallies on the news.   It was in my former city of Portland that his rally drew a record amount of people, 75000 (still just saw it on the news).  It blew my mind to see that kind of devotion, especially at a time when people were so skeptical of big government.  And the people there were my friends.  People my age.  Even people that couldn’t vote love him.

It’s a far cry from the overwhelming skeptecism from across the board during the last administration, but for all past administrations really.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a mountain of faith placed in a U.S. president before.  “Oh my god, I looooove Obama.”  I hear that all the time, is he the new Tom Cruise or something?  I didn’t realize that political leaders were such statues of fandom.  That’s what’s scary about this change in our world today.

I feel like the fact that Obama was able to use and envigorate his role as celebrity has given him the approval of the American people.  I’m not saying that he’s doing a bad job, because really nobody knows, we have to wait and see.  Like he said, it’s about patience.  But people in America trust celebrities for whatever reason.  And one that can also be taken seriously is the greatest of them all.  America has almost just shunned away a lot of its God given right to question itself and those who run it.  Every day I run myself into some argument with an avid Obama fan about something without trying to.  The people who are so avid that they just skim through as many things about what he’s doing as they can and then regurgitate it to me as their argument.  They thrive on talking about it, I swear, he’s “…bigger than Jesus.” (thanks John Lennon.)

I feel like I need to end this now.  All I’m asking is please, don’t put so much blind trust in somebody.  We as a country have been duped many times, don’t be fooled by your desperate need for just a “change” from George W. Bush.

Goin in,

Cutter