Crying Out For Change

This is what I keep hearing to explain the popularity of Barack Obama. People are crying out for change.

So I was thinking the other day. Who is crying out for change?

I thought about it and here is a general sampling of the kind of people who beg for change.

People who are chronically short of cash because they'd a lot rather get a handout from somebody are always asking for change.

Among those in this category are people who hang out on the street, people who hit up wealthier friends who put out because they feel guilty about their own success, addicts who spend everything they get on substance, people who had money but wasted it and now want somebody to feel sorry for them, people who want to get something to eat but didn't budget for food again.

Kids who don't want to deliver papers or mow lawns for spending money cry out for change everytime their mother opens her purse or the ice cream wagon goes by.

People whine for change when they don't want to put in the effort to succeed under the system that they have. These are the people who would rather keep buying new socks and underwear than wash the ones they've been wearing.

Then there are people who change their significant others every time they hit a rough patch. Or change the decor of their living rooms every six months having never sat down on the sofa to read a book and enjoy the surroundings before switching them again.

People crying out for change are people who have convinced themselves or have been convinced by others that things need changing that in actuality don't particularly.

These are people who have never really become involved or invested in anything, so they bore easily and don't really think about or care what may be lost in an undefined quest for "change."

These are the people who want the channel changed, but would not get up off the couch to change it themselves if they couldn't find the remote.

Do we really want these people influencing the nation? Or worse, do we really want the kind of person that panders to them at the helm of the free world?

Just some thoughts.

Next entry I'll change the subject.