Heroes of the past.

Right now, there are many who feel strongly about Barack Obama. To some he is great, to some he is scum. Some are happy to have a president who has a brain, some feel he was a sell-out from day one, and we won't even get into the people who have a white sheet wrapped around their heart, many of whom are Democrat. However, I humbly offer something to consider about the people we consider "heroes." All of them were human, flawed products of the flawed world we come from, and while death allows us to paint Halos or Horns on people, we have to realize that whatever Good we have gained was often done by people who we would hate today.

Let me be blunt; most of what little government programs we have came from LBJ. Now, I have seen people say "why doesn't Obama act more like LBJ?" Of course, back then, many democrats HATED LBJ because he was an arm twister who was very apt at making shady deals in the Senate. Back then, it was said he LOST most of his power when he became president, because he was no longer running the Senate hands on. And let's not forget that for the hippies, he was the man they hated, screaming "hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today." Vietnam was a fiasco, and they were right to oppose him, but it is funny how no one has ever blamed JFK for starting that war. JFK was the man who did two things: He started Vietnam, and he dragged his foot on Civil Rights, refusing to sign much actual legislation or embrace MLK too much. Like it or not, only LBJ signed the Civil Rights act, which, more than anything Lincoln did, actually did much to "Emancipate" minority citizens. JFK chose to start sending "advisors" to Vietnam, even though the French warned him it would be a mess, meanwhile he trotted out his showpiece wife, all the while doing the sort of womanizing Bill Clinton could only dream of.

Yet, whenever JFK is spoken of, his Halo is always bright, whereas LBJ, that villain so hated, only get dragged out now that people want to use him to hit Obama over the head.

There are others, indeed, name a Democrat that has been elected in the 20th century, and you will find something that would cause them to be hated by DU. FDR is so lauded, but read papers of the day, and you will see the far left of their day hating FDR. Even now and then, you will still see someone here pipe up something along the lines of "FDR saved Capitalism from itself, and if he failed, we would have finally had our trotsky-inspired revolution!" Of course, these come from people who would themselves agree that without social security, medicare, and the voting rights act, all our lives would be a lot darker.

So what it is the point, am I saying "lay off Obama", not by any means. I do think that, whether by accident or by design, he has exposed the fact that this country, as per design, is run by the Senate and House, and that the Senate and House have been bought by Wall Street. Yes, W. and Reagan LOOKED like powerful presidents that ran the show, but that was only because Wall Street had their hand way way up their backside. If we are going to scream and picket, let us not be like the enemy who is ignorant and proud of it, let's realize that the first step is to choke out the right wing, and that every time we fight with each other, they get a breath of oxygen.