Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Change and Reform Melodrama
July 12 2020 By Abiodun Giwa
Abiodun Giwa
MY OPINION
The night of Barack Obama's election as president is still memorable. The atmosphere was electric. A Black president was born. Americans expected change. "Change has come to America," President Obama said aloud to a large crowd of supporters. But for eight years, America witnessed little or no change. Americans still discuss this issue every day. And some Democrats argue that there were reasons for Obama's inaction.
The reason there was no change during Obama's presidency is not the issue here. The issue here is about Biden's promise for reform. Is he coming to fulfill Obama's promise for change, which they both could not fulfill in their first eight years, and Biden thinks he can play the same game of making a promise for reform and that Americans will believe and trust him? This is a question many Americans are asking now.
Americans remember the signing into law of the Affordable Care bill by President Obama. We also remember the killing of Osama bin Laden. There is no other memorable moment during Obama eight years that we can remember. Please, forgive me. Lest I forget, we also have the same sex-marriage fulfilment. And America has tried to push the same-sex marriage to other countries with less success. The same-sex marriage was a change and the unsuccessful effort to push to other countries also represents a change.
Although, Biden did not mention the type of reform, he has in mind to bring with to the White House. He somehow brought the information later when he spoke about his economic plans. And the economic change he plans to bring is to continue President Donald Trump's economic agenda. I am not accusing Biden of plagiarism as some people on the right are doing. No. All I know he has said his economic plan will be a repetition of Trump's economic agenda. He did not mention Trump. But we all heard his statement as representing exactly Trump's economic agenda. Biden may have plagiarized, but it is not the issue here. It is possible that if Biden has mentioned, at least credit Trump, he will not be facing plagiarism accusation.
Yes, Biden has fallen in love with Trump's economic agenda. Biden has approved Trump's economic agenda. Therefore, he is saying to Americans, forget about me and whatever Utopian economic agenda my promoters and the Democratic Party may be putting together to force on me if I ever become a president. Some people think Biden may have made a mistake by saying his economic plan will be exactly what Trump is currently doing, and that his intention what to say may have been different.
For example, few days earlier, Biden came out and said he was coming with an axe to tax every American to the bone. He said he would move the corporate tax plan from 21 percent where trump has lowered it from 38 percent to 28 percent. Of course, many people did not take Biden seriously. I know some guys who said Biden will move the corporate tax back to 38 percent. And that coming out to say he is moving the corporate tax to 28 percent is like telling independent voters to distance him. It was therefore not surprising he returned and said he would act exactly like Trump, delude us and to later emerge with the horrendous tax plan capable of destroying whatever gains we have got under the current administration.
One thing that is still shocking about Obama's promise of change and he did not make any change to the lives of Black people; to do that Martin Luther King said ... to empower the people who were emancipated but not empowered, and to save the Black community from what the world from witnessing the type of looting and destruction in Black communities following George Floyd's murder under the kneel a police officer. And why the promise of a change in a melodrama mode, on a night that he had won an election, and he knew very well that plan for a change was not in his agenda? It that a part of oration?
Someone needs to tell Biden that it is not enough to promise a reform, but when you are promising a reform, you also have to show a past example of a reform you have made in the past, especially when he was vice president in a government that promised a change but had delivered no change.
The night of Barack Obama's election as president is still memorable. The atmosphere was electric. A Black president was born. Americans expected change. "Change has come to America," President Obama said aloud to a large crowd of supporters. But for eight years, America witnessed little or no change. Americans still discuss this issue every day. And some Democrats argue that there were reasons for Obama's inaction.
The reason there was no change during Obama's presidency is not the issue here. The issue here is about Biden's promise for reform. Is he coming to fulfill Obama's promise for change, which they both could not fulfill in their first eight years, and Biden thinks he can play the same game of making a promise for reform and that Americans will believe and trust him? This is a question many Americans are asking now.
Americans remember the signing into law of the Affordable Care bill by President Obama. We also remember the killing of Osama bin Laden. There is no other memorable moment during Obama eight years that we can remember. Please, forgive me. Lest I forget, we also have the same sex-marriage fulfilment. And America has tried to push the same-sex marriage to other countries with less success. The same-sex marriage was a change and the unsuccessful effort to push to other countries also represents a change.
Although, Biden did not mention the type of reform, he has in mind to bring with to the White House. He somehow brought the information later when he spoke about his economic plans. And the economic change he plans to bring is to continue President Donald Trump's economic agenda. I am not accusing Biden of plagiarism as some people on the right are doing. No. All I know he has said his economic plan will be a repetition of Trump's economic agenda. He did not mention Trump. But we all heard his statement as representing exactly Trump's economic agenda. Biden may have plagiarized, but it is not the issue here. It is possible that if Biden has mentioned, at least credit Trump, he will not be facing plagiarism accusation.
Yes, Biden has fallen in love with Trump's economic agenda. Biden has approved Trump's economic agenda. Therefore, he is saying to Americans, forget about me and whatever Utopian economic agenda my promoters and the Democratic Party may be putting together to force on me if I ever become a president. Some people think Biden may have made a mistake by saying his economic plan will be exactly what Trump is currently doing, and that his intention what to say may have been different.
For example, few days earlier, Biden came out and said he was coming with an axe to tax every American to the bone. He said he would move the corporate tax plan from 21 percent where trump has lowered it from 38 percent to 28 percent. Of course, many people did not take Biden seriously. I know some guys who said Biden will move the corporate tax back to 38 percent. And that coming out to say he is moving the corporate tax to 28 percent is like telling independent voters to distance him. It was therefore not surprising he returned and said he would act exactly like Trump, delude us and to later emerge with the horrendous tax plan capable of destroying whatever gains we have got under the current administration.
One thing that is still shocking about Obama's promise of change and he did not make any change to the lives of Black people; to do that Martin Luther King said ... to empower the people who were emancipated but not empowered, and to save the Black community from what the world from witnessing the type of looting and destruction in Black communities following George Floyd's murder under the kneel a police officer. And why the promise of a change in a melodrama mode, on a night that he had won an election, and he knew very well that plan for a change was not in his agenda? It that a part of oration?
Someone needs to tell Biden that it is not enough to promise a reform, but when you are promising a reform, you also have to show a past example of a reform you have made in the past, especially when he was vice president in a government that promised a change but had delivered no change.
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