Change?

Lately, I've been noticing a turn in the Obama campaign that has not been reported all that much in the news. I noticed his position on change has turned into a position of the same thing, nation-building, maintaining the course, no troop withdrawal, and being a typical arrogant D.C. politician.

Obama has made countless statements of change from the Bush administration, but his actions recently are speaking louder than his words. First, he wants to nation-build in Afghanistan, which sounds to me like President Bush's plan for Iraq that Obama has ridiculed countless times. Rather than his promise of change, he plans to keep our troops in Iraq or ship them off to the nation-building he plans in Afghanistan. It's a little ironic that the change Obama promised has turned out to be like his new stance on the surge, leaning more towards McCain's policy.

Though he claims to be different than other politicians, since he's spent so little time in Washington, we can see from his inability to admit he was wrong when he said the surge would fail, he is just like the rest of the politicians. He will only acknowledge accomplishments and never apologize or take the blame for flawed beliefs and admit that his opposition was correct in their decisions.

Is this what we want as our commander in chief - a candidate who was wrong about an important wartime decision with the surge, who is not humble enough to admit failure, who wants to continue if not increase our presence in the Middle East, a candidate whose only change to our country will be higher taxes?

I know I'm ready for a change, but I don't see it happening, even from Obama's campaign filled with empty promises of hope and change.