Hillarysworld

The author is a college sophomore.

http://media.www.smudailycampus.com/media/storage/paper949/news/2009/11/19/Opinion/President.Obama.The.Man.No.Longer-3836470.shtml

But, essentially, Obama was awesome, and I hoped he would become president one day and fix everything.

As the years dragged on, however, I realized more and more that being able to run his mouth didn't actually make Obama more qualified to run this country than anyone else, especially no more than the incredibly seasoned veteran of politics, as well as the literal battlefield, John McCain.

Subsequently, I grew more and more apathetic to who would win. I still voted for Obama, but only because Hillary Clinton lost the primaries (yes, I voted for Clinton!), and because I felt like I was sending a message to the Bush Administration, which I still hate.

This may sound like a small step to us, but I think this kid is pretty brave to admit he voted for Hillary instead of That One. I can only imagine how the students and faculty at this university will react, seeing as how most universities are heavily obotic.

Yes, on the whole, Obama hasn't disappointed me all that much.

Until recently, that is, when I read his latest press release and discovered that he apparently wants to send more troops to Afghanistan. While I applaud his ability to remember that we are actually fighting a war in Afghanistan, I was most shocked to find that the number of troops stationed there has the capacity to match the number of troops stationed in Vietnam during the peak years of the war.

Obama plans on unveiling his ultimate strategy soon, and was quoted as saying, "I am very confident that when I announce the decision, the American people will have a lot of clarity about what we're doing, how we're going to succeed, how much this thing is going to cost."

"How we're going to succeed." That phrase worries me. Already our little war with Afghanistan has the very real capacity to overtake the one in Vietnam in length (just a few more years), and there really doesn't appear to be any clear end to it. Maybe we won't leave until we find Osama bin Laden, or maybe we won't leave until we can "fix" the country. Either way, neither of those goals has a clearly definable plan or timeline, and it's conceivable that we'll never leave. If that happens, make no mistake: It will blow up in Obama's face, he will lose all credibility, and all his plans for fixing our own country will completely fall apart.

Some may think that there's no way someone as smart as Obama could let that happen. But you know what? It happened to LBJ, and he was a smart guy with dreams of his own; it can certainly happen again.

President Obama, I hope beyond all hope that you know what you're doing.