Dee Evans: Were The Pundits Listening or Just Covering The Election?

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by Dee Evans

I have always thought that there is a reason why it's easier to stand on the sidelines and cheer (or boo) than actually getting into the game.

It's interesting that Huffington, Schultz, and Maher (as well as Limbaugh, Beck, and Hannity) and the like never want to put their money where their mouths are and actually run for an office...they just want to stand back and criticize those who do. These are some of the same people who sat around for 8 years while Bush and Cheney systematically tore this country apart and only woke up around year 6 to ask what was going on. Now they want to hound President Obama from Day 1 to try to make up for being MIA for the past decade.

Newsflash: If you wanted a shoot-first, ask questions later administration, then you should have voted for McCain/Palin. They were raring to go. Most of us voted for Barack Obama because of his promise to make thoughtful decisions and to have a steady hand in leading. Now the ADD crowd that claimed to have deplored so-called 'cowboy diplomacy' seems to want Obama to be a bull in a china shop.

Well, I've got news for you. We didn't vote to put a bull in a china shop, we voted to put a sane man in a nut house...and he is trying to fix it if only we will let him.  

They say, "Rome wasn't built in a day" but you wonder if these people would have even been satisfied with Rome being built at all. If Obama had said, we're building Rome, this crowd would have come back a month later and said, I've packed my bags, where's Rome?

This is not to say that we shouldn't question our elected leaders and even give them a hearty nudge from time to time. That's not only our right but our responsibility as citizens, but this new era of instant gratification is really getting tired. They want to ask if people who voted for Obama were actually listening to what he said, I wonder if those who 'covered' the election were actually listening. Obviously, Obama saying "change wouldn't be easy" about 237 times managed to slip by a few people.

To those pundits and pseudo-pundits who don't like it...then why don't you get off your butts, throw your hat in the ring and run for something and try to make a change yourselves. If not, get over yourselves, continue collecting your huge paychecks and quit whining. Believe it or not, there are people in this country with REAL problems and we need REAL leaders to solve them!

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Dee Evans
Plano, TX