To Be Against the President

This has nothing to do with the two books we've been assigned, but I still feel a need to bring this up. The media and all of the politicians are unfairly judging President Obama, blaming him for all of the problems with America. He's being blamed for things that started way before him, and things he could have done NOTHING about. For instance, critics and the media are bashing Obama because of the Iraq and Afghanastan wars, two things that started with Bush. Now, I do admit, I don't like the fact that he's sending in more troops, but what else can he do? He's wanted to stop the war ever since the beginning of his campaign, but no one will compromise with him. He tries to stop something, the Senate and all of the politicians around him give him a hard time until he gives up and sends in more troops. With all of the controversy he's going through and the fact that politicians disagree with every little thing he says, how can we expect him to stop an almost-decade long war in less than a year?

On top of that, people are blaming him for the oil spill. Seriously? That's like blaming him for global warming because we can't stop polluting our world. The oil spill happened out of nowhere- there was absolutely no way Obama, or anyone else, could have predicted something so random to happen. Now is that really fair, especially since he's doing so much to help figure out how to stop the oil spill?

Don't think I'm biased just because I'm African American, too; I would be against any president being blamed for crimes he did not commit. It's honestly not fair; I mean, he's barely been in office for a year and people already expect all of America's problems to be solved. The media is a big factor in this; if it wasn't producing so much gossip and so many debate programs full of people bashing Obama, the public might not be so blinded to what's going on right in front of them. But even if the media wasn't against Obama, would it make a difference in how America sees Obama? Does the fact that he's the first visually non-white president play a part in this?