Day By Day January 28, 2010 – iPad the Resume

The i-Pad from Apple looks promising and the Obama Presidency does NOT. The State of the Union address last night paved no new ground and was more of the same – Obama rhetoric and no substance.

When Al Melquist voted for Barack Obama in 2008, the unemployed software engineer was drawn to the politician’s charisma and promise of solutions for the nation’s economic woes and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the time since, Melquist has given up looking for work. The house in Las Vegas where he lived sits empty and bank-owned after his landlord didn’t make mortgage payments for 13 months. He is burning through his savings and doing Web site work to make ends meet for his family of five, while working on his own startup.

Millions of Americans like Melquist tuned in to the president’s State of the Union address Wednesday night, aching for solutions but wary – aware that in too many places voters are no better off today than when they lifted Obama into the White House.

Many have become so disillusioned with their economic situations that they are tired of all the politics and promises and want action.

“He just says so many things,” the 41-year-old Melquist said of Obama. “I just don’t trust what he says is actually going to happen.”

This is the sentiment of many Americans. Obama has become just another politician.

Congressional Democrats are already feeling the ire of their constituents. Congressional majorities may change this Novbember but if Obama persists in taking the country towards MOR#E government he will end up like Jimmy Carter – a failed one term President.

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