Mark your calendar: Today is "Bush Equivalence Day," a little earlier than some might have expected. After all, it took eight long, hard years for Pres. Bush to become as unpopular as he was when a new president was finally elected.
The Won has now accomplished the same percentage of Strong Disapproval... and in record time: only eleven months and one day.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17 (see trends).
This is nothing to celebrate, however. While voters were able to act upon their disapproval of Dubya in the voting booth, we cannot be so sure that the current Socialist Revolution will allow for free and fair elections in the future.
History is there - within living memory - to remind us of the more typical turn of events. This letter from a Cuban immigrant was published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in plenty of time for us to heed its warning, but the majority of Americans were far too busy being star-struck to notice.
.... In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.
When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said "Praise the Lord." And when the young leader said, "I will be for change and I'll bring you change," everyone yelled, "Viva Fidel!"
But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent the people's guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was over more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans. And now I'm back to the beginning of my story.
Luckily, we would never fall in America for a young leader who promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out? What will it cost America?
Would we?
Manuel Alvarez Jr., Sandy Hook
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