What Does Real Change Look Like?

by Francisco Gonzalez ~ August 15, 2008

Obama’s big government proposals and his far left beliefs that the government can solve our problems do not represent change, but simply the status quo. Real change would put power back in the hands of individuals, not more power concentrated in Washington. This, in fact, is the biggest problem in our political system and Obama doesn’t want to “change” this crisis, he only wants to exacerbate it.

Why, then, have so many come to believe that Obama is an agent of “change you can believe in?” Mostly, we suppose, it is because the Obama campaign keeps using the word “change” and the media keeps following along. It is hard to find one interview, press conference, or rally where the Obama campaign has not strategically placed a sign (or a series of signs) that simply utilizes the word “change.” If you keep saying something over and over again, people tend to believe it. Much to his campaign’s credit (and the media’s ability to repeat the mantra), “change” has thus become automatically associated with Obama. In a year when the poll numbers for both the incumbent Republican President and the Democrat Congress are as low as they can go, Americans certainly want “change.” Obama’s consistent use of the word “change” to describe his candidacy has been forcefully etched in voters’ minds.

Obama’s two books, Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope are largely responsible for constructing the narrative about Obama that the mainstream media and the youth have followed at will. Both of these books have spent weeks on the New York Times best seller lists. Many books have been successfully published to challenge Hillary Clinton, who was supposed to be the “inevitable” Democrat nominee. But the media, the publishing industry, and the American people, have all been stunned by the apparent success of Obama. This has left a large hole in the publishing industry for books challenging the Obama campaign’s crafted narrative. We hope this book will begin to fill part of that vacancy.

(But actually at the time of publication, several other books about Obama have now been released. So, it looks like the vacancy is being filled. We think our book talks to and represents young people better than any other Obama book on the market.)

The reasons stated above are what drove us to write this book. We believe this book will arm voters with substantive research that they can use to learn more about where Obama stands on the important economic, national security, and social issues, and expose his background, character, and far left ideology. It is up to you, the reader, to digest this information, perhaps do some further research yourself, and then spread the factual evidence of what Obama really stands for.