During his campaign, we heard two words from Obama; hope and change.  Hope is pretty ambiguous.  How can we really measure that?  Could it be the doom and gloom that have pervaded the first 50 days of his Presidency?  Could it be when he told us it might take a while before we see improvement?

Change, though, is really easy to measure.  How do his actions differ from those of previous administrations?  Are the proposals a move in a different direction from where we were heading?  That’s where I have to take issue with the Obamessiah.

Has there been change?  Yes, there has.  He has reversed the Bush policies of keeping terrorist off our soil.  He closed Gitmo and tribunals against terrorists and will bring them here so they can use ACLU lawyer to finish what they started.  He has reversed Bush policy by exporting death by sending taxpayer dollars overseas to support abortion on a global scale.  He has reversed Bush policy by allowing taxpayer dollars to be spent to fund an immoral and extremely ineffective research, embryonic stem cell research.

In these areas, we must ask ourselves, though, is this change good?  Each of those policies seem to be steps on the wrong direction.  They take us further and further from the moral high ground and self-protection.  They destroy our country.  Just like the change Hitler, Lenin and Stalin brought to their countries, this is not good change.

But, hey, its change, right?

In other areas, though, has he really brought change?  Has he really reversed the policies of Bush when it comes to spending?  He just signed a massive stimulus bill that has no more oversight than the TARP bill Bush pushed on us.  He is about to sign a $410 billion spending bill that has far too many pork projects, just as bills Bush signed in his waning years in office.  He has agreed to continue the failed policy of “No Child Left Behind” (or as I like to call it, “Every Child Left Behind”), meaning there will be no improvement in the education of our children for at least one year, most likely more.  Aren’t these areas we really needed change and areas where he promised change?

Did we really believe he was about this kind of change, though?  As a Senator, he was responsible for an unbelievable amount of pork in each and every bill he actually voted on.  He couldn’t have cared less about the people’s money then, why would he now?  And, isn’t NCLB really an education bill Democrats wanted, they were just upset a Republican President got it through?  It seems to fit the Democrats style; bring the top performers down to the level of the below average, they feel better about themselves and the low standards make it look like everyone is succeeding.

None of this even takes into account the ethical vacuum he continues to bring with him.  Ethics are void in Washington and his cabinet picks magnify that.  Knowing, though, of his associations with people such as Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are we really surprised?

Seeing the kind of change he really supports and the kind he is incapable of bringing, I wonder how long the honeymoon will last?  I’m not sure it will last a full 100 days.  I certainly hope it won’t.  Our country can’t take much more change from this guy.