I Hope Barack Obama Succeeds by Morphing into Ronald Reagan

For the past eight years Democrats not only rooted for George W. Bush to fail miserably in every aspect of his presidency, they also cheered for the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan to defeat our troops. Other than the lunatic fringe who consider our military personal to be the real terrorists, I don't believe they wanted harm to come to our brave men and woman fighting overseas, but were so desperate for Bush to be proven a failure; they couldn't help but cheer for a U.S. defeat in the Middle East.

Despite their wish that America fail, they don't understand why conservatives are unwilling to at least give Obama a chance to succeed.

Let me get this straight, you want conservatives to give Obama a chance to "turn the country around," yet were so desperate for Bush to fail that you not only openly wished we would lose two wars, you refused to admit it when Bush did succeed.

"The troop surge did not work," you said after the troop surge worked.

So if we acted like you, and Barack Obama turned around the economy, defeated Al-Qaeda and discovered a cheap alternative to oil, we would say, "Barack Obama did not turn the economy around, defeat Al-Qaeda, or discover a cheap alternative to oil."

But that's not the main problem with you admonishing us for not hoping President Barack Obama does a bang up job during his time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The problem is that we don't agree with Barack Obama!

Do you wish a verbally abusive father success in raising respectable children? "Sure I disagree with his method of constantly calling his child a 'worthless joke of a human being,' but I wish him nothing but the best in all his parenting endeavors."

You can't wish a president success when you believe his "success" will damage the country.

If Barack Obama takes $5 billion from Bill Gates and gives it to 50,000 people who have lost their jobs, you liberals would cry "success!"

But while you were screaming, "Hallelujah, he turned the economy around by helping the poor," we would say, "Number one, taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor is not right. And number two, that particular method of revitalizing the economy is not a long term solution; it will only work to ensure that future generations will never produce a Bill Gates because it removes incentive from those who aspire to achieve greatness."

So do I root for Barack Obama to succeed?

If your definition of a successful Obama presidency is, "President Obama morphing into a modern day Ronald Reagan by reducing taxes, increasing opportunity for entrepreneurs to succeed, and crushing our enemies throughout the world," then I say "Go Obama; get busy succeeding!"

Basically the Democrats view of success is "Turning the United States into a country opposite of what our forefathers envisioned."

Our view of success is, "Helping the United States once again resemble the country our forefathers envisioned."

So we conservatives do root for Mr. Obama to succeed, but in order for that to happen he would have to somehow obtain an entirely different system of beliefs, and despite your love for the man, I doubt such a transformation would make you Democrats very happy.