Political Thoughts

I was reading a note written by Matt Marting on Barack Obama being elected as President, and it brought me to thinking about politics in general. I followed this last presidential election pretty closely. I was not what you would say enamored with the whole Barack Obama "Change we can believe in" express. Nor was I all that excited about John McCain either. That is how I have felt lately about all politicians. All I hear every 4 years is how we need "CHANGE" How the Republicans want to do this to "CHANGE" things and then the Democrats want to "CHANGE" things. One thing that never EVER seems to change is the corruption in politics. My parents were both Democrats back when the Democrats were good (FDR/Truman/JFK) They no longer recognize the party of FDR/Truman and JFK. The Republicans are supposed to the party of fiscal conservatism. Well we saw that was not the case for the last 8 years. Although what I call the Bush derangement syndrome has been in overdrive for the last 7 years. Anything and everything has been blamed as being Bushes fault. Has he made mistakes? Yes he has. Do I think he was the worst president ever? Not by a long shot. Do I think Obama will be the worst president ever? No. But I am leery of one political party being in charge of government from local-federal level. My basic disagreements with both parties is that Democrats want to be everything to everyone and give everything to everyone. Free Health Care, Free this, Free that. Someone has to pay for it. Republicans want to give the wealthy and the rich everything and then expect the middle class to try and catch up. So the only real CHANGE that I see benefitting us whether it is at the local, state or federal level is to throw out the Republicrats and the Democans and try something else. Our greatest president was an Independent (George Washington) he warned us of competing political parties. Perhaps we need to elect another Independent. The defintion of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Sounds to me like electing Democrats/Republicans over and over is the defintion of Insanity.