As I’ve said before, Sen. Obama, the man who had said he wasn’t ready to be president, will be the next president of the United States.  That’s depressing.  It’s depressing because the next four years will be a repeat of what was wrong with the last 8 years, times a hundred.  Everything George Bush did wrong domestically, e.g. No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, domestic survellence excesses, steel tariffs,  are the antithesis of small government conservatism.  Barack Obama makes no pretense of prefering small government.  Government coercion, regulation, control and big spending are his view of a better America.  Couple that with his long, close association with Americans who hate America and his need to please the rest of the world instead of placing the interests of the United States first and we are faced with a dismal, depressing future.