Independunce

Jill Dorson, a "freelance writer" and political independent, apologizes to America for voting for Obama: Why I Voted For Obama

I am a registered Independent. I voted for Barack Obama. And for that, I am sorry.

I'm not sorry for you. I'm sorry for me. Because I voted for Obama for me, not for you. I voted for hope and change and all the intangibles that Obama was peddling in the wake of the financial crisis, Sarah Palin, Sept. 11 and all the other ills that shook our country in the last decade. I wanted something new. Something different. What I got was, I suppose, exactly what I voted for - a spin doctor. And not a very good one at that.

Before John McCain unwittingly picked a tabloid-magazine cover girl for his running mate, I was leaning toward going Republican this time around. I did the second time Bush was on the ballot and I very nearly did the first time, too. But as soon as Palin climbed out of her igloo and onto the national scene, well, there was no turning back for me.

You see, I felt my choice was to risk McCain dropping dead and letting the world's most well-known hockey mom run this country, or to believe that Obama would surround himself with educated people and that he was smart enough to take their advice.

First of all, I don't believe that this woman is an "independent." She may be registered as such, but anyone who can level as many gratuitous insults at Sarah Palin in so little space can only have blue blood coursing through her veins.

Second, if Sarah Palin is so stoopid that it changed your vote, how is it that she was correct about the disastrous potential of an Obama Administration; something she mentioned in her GOP Convention speech, out on the stump, on her TV appearances, and on her Facebook page? In fact, how was it that this woman who "crawled out of an igloo" was able to kick-start the opposition to Obamacare with a single 5-paragraph facebook posting that the president of the United States - the guy you voted for - felt compelled to rebut it in a prime-time speech before both Houses of Congress? As long as you're apologizing for misjudging Obama, you - and a lot of other people out there - owe Sarah Palin an even bigger apology for believing what was a coordinated media-political assault from the political Left that could only be called propaganda.

Third, believing that you just need to get a bunch of smart people together at the White House is the secret to successful statecraft is the fundamental error that voters make in searching for answers to all of their problems. It's the belief in the Annointed; the belief that we can just talk away our problems like you could a final exam question in college. Believing that the problems of the world can be resolved by some eggheads is a fantasy, and a recipe for economic chaos and rule by an elite. Yet, many Americans, especially from the college educated on the one hand and the wards of the state on the other, yearn for this sort of false security. Still, these folks have the right to vote, just like the rest of us, so we end up having to indulge their thumbsucking.

It wasn't that hard to figure out that Obama would have been a mediocre president at best. Apology not accepted.