President Pelosi?

Sheesh it was painful even typing that title, as that is a thought that would scare the living heck out of me and any sane person. But after watching President Obama's speech tonight, I felt like I was listening to the whacko Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) instead, hence the title. I have had hope that Obama turns out to be a good president, and up until tonight would have even given him a favorable rating, despite the less-than-stellar nominations he has made. Maybe I'm too nice of a guy. But after tonight's performance, what hope I had for him is gone. Why? Well, mainly because he came out and basically told the American people "What you thought I was... what I ran on... Sorry that is not what I am." He had a very combative tone. He is using fear mongering by making statements like this "stimulus" MUST pass or we may not recover (funny since he and his party always blasted the previous administration for using fear tactics). So rather than actually debate it, we're being told we have to rush through whatever he, Pelosi, and Harry Ried want or we will cease to exist as we know it. Oh boy. So much for bipartisanship. When discussing the pork-inflated "stimulus", and how much it costs, he barked that the massive deficit was there when he arrived. So that means you spend like there's no tomorrow and make it worse? Sorry Barack, no sane person can follow such "logic". And then there was his comment that "all big bills have earmarks (pork - garbage thrown in that shouldn't be there)". This is true, but all during the campaign he stated how he would fight to change this. Hypocrisy? Yep! I said there was an epidemic of this in Washington, and it has infected our President. He is clearly NOT going to be what he said he would be if this is the road he chooses to continue down, and why should we think he will do otherwise after such a shameful performance tonight? America voted for a change. This isn't an attempt to refute or ignore that. But the problem is, the change he promised is not the change being delivered. I hope I'm overreacting here just due to being pissed after listening to this, but I have lost a lot of what optimism I had, and honestly don't think the President has any clue how to fix things, so is caving in to the loons in his party. Change indeed. Buckle up America.