Dear Mr. President-to-be

I wrote this like 3 different times and it was just so verbose so here's the bullet points. If you just want the main message, skip to #4.

EDIT: In fact, just go to 4, the rest is just me complaining.

I've re-evaluated why I dislike Obama because I usually only feel this kind of animosity towards the "God hates f**s" crowd and child molesters. Basically I decided I don't care if he leads us into communism or fascism or caterpillar-economics. ("...capitalism is not a good alternative to Communism if the King of Glory is not invited." -- Brother Andrew)
And I don't dislike him for his stance on abortion any more than I dislike anyone else for that sole reason. So here's why:

1. He's cocky and it's annoying. He lets people compare him to Jesus (!!!) and accepts all this praise and adoration when he hasn't done anything to earn it.

2. His followers annoy me too because these are people who are just clamoring for "Change!" solely because they're lives took a downturn, though they didn't give a rats butt about poor people 5 years ago.

3. Change. Change? Yeah, I'd love it if this country changed, but what kind are we talking about here? Are we talking about a sudden cultural shift where suddenly everyone cares about the less fortunate and loves one another, giving their time and energy to make the whole WORLD a better place? Or change where Americans are making a ton more money so they can afford the latest DVR?
The last time we were promised change was with Women's Suffrage and I feel like that made being a woman a lot tougher in a lot of ways, so forgive me my skepticism.

Here's the biggie:
4. He's perpetuating the idea that we, as Americans, need more, deserve more. I don't care how poor you are, if you live in the States you are DARNED lucky.
You may not have easy access to healthcare, but you're living in a nation that has been vaccinated against most the diseases that would kill you and/or your children before they reached toddlerhood.
You have clean drinking water, even if it's only at public water fountains.
There is no one hunting you down with machine guns because you don't follow their religious beliefs. There is no one tearing your 5 year old out of your arms and making him shoot you with their guns so that he can be made into a good soldier for their army.
It's not the norm to be gang raped or have your genitals mutilated before puberty.
Nowhere are you at risk for stepping on a hidden land mine and losing limbs or life.
Education is FREE and available to EVERYONE. You won't even have to walk 10 miles across a desert.
Forced prostitution and child labor are illegal.
Lions, tigers, gorillas, hippos, cheetahs, elephants: unless you're at a zoo at an inopportune time you don't have to worry about them killing you.
The government can afford to keep West Nile, Ebola, Bird Flu etc. away from you.

If you think those aren't a HUGE deal, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
If you think you deserve any better, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

We can't afford for the leader of the richest, free-est people in the world to support the idea that we deserve more.
We can't! The world can't! It needs our help! It doesn't need us to redistribute the wealth among ourselves! Please! That's like the Sheik making his sons share their inheritance equally while their people die in the gutter!
How can we complain about our problems when the rest of the world has real problems?

That's why I can't get excited about this. Why? What are we excited about? I don't get it.
Are we really just a bunch of lemmings, doing the popular thing?
Is America a giant high school?

"No one have ever become poor by giving." --Anne Frank