For months now we have been bombed with a message of hope and change vs. fear. But the truth of the matter is that we are being given a false choice. Of course, we all hope for change in our futures. No one wants to be stuck with a life that stays in a static position. We all want to do better in the future and we want our children to do even better. But if you haven't noticed it, change is unavoidable in this world. Everything on our planet is in a constant state of flux. The question is ,when someone tells us they are going to be bring "Hope and Change", what do they really mean? 

Barack Obama is offering himself up as an agent of change and he promises to bring us all hope. However, after being flooded with this message over and over again, can anyone articulate what the end result this rhetoric will be? Exactly what are we hoping to change? Obama says we need to move away from the politics of the past. That we need to learn to work together to fix our nations problems. And he says that he can get the Democrat and Republican parties to reach across the isle to move our country forward. The only problem with this promise is that Obama has no proven track record of doing this. Senator Obama's voting record is totally void of any kind of bipartisan activity. So why would anyone think that he's suddenly going to learn how to bring two opposing forces in the House and Senate together?

Hope and change and fear are not mutually exclusive. We can hope that the fear of terrorism is defeated. We can work to change the climate that breeds young Muslim killers that have caused so much carnage all around the world. But Barack Obama is trying to convince us that if you bring up terrorism you are fear mongering. That we should totally forget about 9/11 and that if we all close our eyes all the evil in the world is suddenly going to go away. In the mean time, we have an enemy that never stops plotting new ways to kill as many Americans as possible.

It will be interesting to see how long this false message of "Hope and Change" is going to last. We don't have to drink the Koolaid. We can go into this campaign soberly, understanding that hope and change are in our DNA. Our nation is the most hopeful place on earth. And we have allowed constant change to be our strength. But if we totally ignore fear, we are fooling ourselves. We can't afford not to be alert. We have an enemy that is a serious threat to our safety. When we are hit again all the hope and change in the world are meaningless. 

Right now Barack Obama is being treated like a rock star. He draws crowds in the thousands that hang on his every word. I've heard an NBC reporter state "that if you can listen to Barack Obama speak and not got a tear in your eye you're not an American". Obama is not the first politician to cast a spell over large crowds. But at this time in history, can we afford the cult of personality to dictate the direction of our country? We have to decide what's more important, having a political novice in the Oval Office or having a President that has been tried and tested under the most extreme circumstances one man can face. The choice is yours America. This election is going to set the course of our nation for decades to come.