Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Dear Mr. Obama, Thank You Very much. Signed, John Wahba

Several years ago, a young student by the name of John Wahba was posed an essay at the end of his sophmore year. The essay's question was to write about a person who exhibits "The Power of One." For those of you who know me well enough, such abstractions really piss me off. After brief consideration I put pen to paper and wrote of a man who in my opinion had a net positive impact on the world. Osama Bin Laden.

This of course was a purely intellectual exercise at first. To analyze the good that an international terrorist did is borderline unpatriotic, but it was all for the best. The theory behind my essay was two-stringed. First, that he taught us all a valuable geography lesson (Not so strong), and second, he inoculated the United States against a much worse attack. Think of 9/11 as a vaccine to a nuclear bomb. Alas, that essay is done and gone, but I feel it necessary to look into Obama's positive effect on the USA, no matter how inadvertent.

Let's begin:

Happy Obama-versery everyone! On this day approximately 1 year ago, history was made and Obama was elected to the presidency making him the first half-white man to become ruler of the free world. But aside from such leaps in civil rights like a rich, published, Harvard alum becoming president, what did he really do in the past year. Let's analyze a list of campaign promises he didn't keep.



Some may say that it is to early to judge a president. They suggest that the year mark is way to short. I ask the critics this, name a good president who defined his term after the first year. If you can find one, please send it over.

Now that we are done with that, let's see what his real impact was on the country. He ran under lofty rhetoric and sheer idealism. He gave people hope. He told his supporters that together we can do anything. And proceeded to do none of it. So Mr. Obama, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for reminding Americans that a pretty face will not change the system.

PS To those reading this off of facebook, you missed the embedded video. Go to http://wahbapolitics.blogspot.com for the full effect.

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