Be Prepare

No one can predict the future. This is why it is important to be able to go with the flow and not to have too great a stake in your predictions. Obama has fallen into that trap by now trying to defend his position on opposing the surge in Iraq while at the same time championing one in Afghanistan. He is doing the same thing by defending his outdated position concerning offshore and ANWR drilling. The defense of a position in light of new or changing information can be seen as courageous, but actually is hubris, a belief in your own ability to predict more than in reality.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, believers in socialism have taken the position that socialism is great, just a few problems in its execution or external events prevented it from prevailing. The same is heard about communism. Now, we are getting a communism-light here in the USA, with equality trumping freedom as the policy of the democrat party. Many public (ie, socialistic) programs get priority even though the proof of their superior (or even equal) outcomes over private, free enterprise is not there.

Politicians should stick to who they are and use that as a way for us to determine if they will be strong enough to consider new information and change with the changing events that are unpredictable, yet certain to occur. It is not a policy that will shape the future, but a mind that is ready to incorporate the new information and events and recalibrate with the times. Amazingly, Obama, for all his youth, has not been as open to changing his mind as the older McCain. Remember that two days from now tomorrow will be the past.

Please note that Obama can change with the times. While his policies about taxing us (higher and more unequal in the service of equality) have not changed, he has changed his friends. He has removed Ayres, Wright, and Ludacris from his BFFs. If the new greatness is being able to ditch friends and keep ideas, Obama will be the role model.