Two rants in one day… I was going to roll them all into my dear mr. president part 1 rant… but I figured they would be better off in two different posts. The previous one was a few days brewing… this one I have been working on since yesterday. I have come to a point where I am almost ready to throw in the towel and its not good. I had alot of hope for our country when I went to the polls to vote in November. If you read the first part of this rant, then you know that I believe Barack Obama is a smarter and better man than our last President…. but after the Presidents speech last night, I am angry and upset. Not because of what he had to say about health care, but because of how he closed out the Q&A session afterwards. The last question he took was about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police department.

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I voted for Barack Obama. For the first time ever I put political signs out around my house during the 2008 election season in support of Obama/Biden. I argued endlessly about why people should vote for Obama. I argued with my mother, my father in law, and others. I believed in the audacity of hope and the ideas he was tossing around. For the most part I still do. This post is going to be a two parter… the first part has to do with the economy, the stimulus, unemployment and some comments the president and vice president made recently. The second part won’t be so nice….

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