Maybe we have to change too

I am so very tired of people whining and moaning that Obama isn't living up to his hype. He's barely had a year in office, and personally I think we've had enough of the cowboy politics of yesterday when Presidents and Prime Ministers shot first and asked questions later. So if it means our leaders have to take a few extra weeks or months to decide how best to handle situations like the so called 'war on terror' or  operation Iraqis 'Freedom' then good on them. After all I think I give more thought to what beer I'm going to drink after work then Bush and Cheney did on where they were going to drop bombs next. Change; that is long lasting positive change, takes time. Its not something that you can just wave a presidential wand and make happen.After eight years of the Bush regime its going to take alot more then 10 months to right the wrongs and still manage to garner at least moderate consensus* (which is what democracy is all about). Change has happened, health-care reform is now well on its way to happening, something that Canadians need to keep note of since our provincial and federal governments seem hell bent on doing away with the very system Americans have fought so hard to get. The whole 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' nonsense of the American military is on the chopping block. Which if history teaches us anything is the first step to legal gay marriages (at least it was in Canada with the two happened just over a decade apart from each other, 1992 and 2005 respectively). So give it time people, stop expecting him and his team to right all the wrongs created over the last decade (or century) in 10 months. Change is a slow, sometimes painful process and its not just the system that has to change. We have to change too.



* Consensus does not mean majority rules or that you even have to truly agree with something to consent to it, but rather that a) you believe that other understands your point of view, b) that your understand the others point of view and c) Whether or not oyu prefer this decision you will support its outcome because it was reched openly and fairly.