Do you agree with Obama's political beliefs?  

This is extremely difficult to answer once you break down who you are as a person; what your core beliefs and values are compared to another man who's not JUST another man, but a brilliant magician who can easily make you believe the sky's falling if those particular words bellow out from his golden throat.

On the surface, I want nothing more than to agree with and believe in President Obama. I'm as anti-liberal as you could possibly get, but the man has more than charm working in his favor. He exudes this confidence that makes you want to latch on. But beneath the surface, I see little that I agree with. In fact, I'm disgusted with President Obama's actual belief system.

He definitely seems to believe that government--while he's head of it, no less--can make better decisions for America than Americans. It's long been a liberal belief that the entire world needs to be child-proofed because no individual can be trusted with personal responsibility, but Obama is taking this to new levels. He seems to want Americans dependent on government. This is scary and dangerous and not something any person in the world should want.

Obama, underneath his deep, immaculate rhetoric, is an elitist who feels his interests are more pertinent to your life than your interests. That's vanity. And no matter how much you admire someone, admiration never makes them LESS vain -- only more so.

President Obama shares his belief with a select group of people who, while together, feel as if their group of hundreds knows better than our group of 300 million.

You can call it what you like, but it ends up the same regardless: Politicians hold every ounce of power and the people are subservient to government rule.

Whether or not Obama can "change" things for the better is irrelevant. His political beliefs are that politicians--officials ELECTED by the people--know better than other people in ALL areas, private, public and otherwise. For that reason, every other belief he holds is tainted. His core, fundemental belief that Americans cannot make decisions in their own best interest means that every other belief he has is just a spawn of that unholy, gargantuan mother.

So, no -- no matter how much I'd like to; no matter how much his voice and swagger tries to draw me in, I just can't agree with his political beliefs. As a man, as an individual, as an American, it's just not in my best interest.

The platforms he has unveiled are based on economic and social need right now. He hasn't taken as strong a stand against invasion of privacy as I would like, but his attempts to make America more of a partner to the world than a bully, almost make up for it. Only time will tell how well we really would get along.