OBAMA AS JESUS

Swept into office two years ago with the overwhelming approval and unbridled hope of the American people along with a solidly Democratic congress, Barack Obama was given an opportunity few presidents have ever enjoyed. Now, two years later, how did Obama
manage to squander that opportunity and what can he do about it now?

Having inherited the worst financial calamity since the Great Depression and knowing next to nothing about economics, he surrounded himself with the very people who helped to create the crisis in the first place. Their advice was designed to help their buddies on Wall Street. Obama passively signed on.

A psychotherapist could have a field day with Barack Obama. But even to the layman
certain clues are self evident. Obama is without doubt intelligent, articulate, charming, polished, poised, smooth, professorial, cerebral, cool etc. Above all else his modus operandi is to bring people together. In fact, one could go so far as to see Obama thinking of himself as a sort of Jesus, always naively stating his willingness to turn the other cheek. In that respect he becomes more of a religious leader than a political leader. As such he lacks the desire for a good old fashioned fight with a Republican party whose only agenda, in the words of that idiot, Mitch McConnell, is to bring him down. To see Obama still offering an olive branch to those people in his speech following the devastating elections of November 2nd is to see a weak, seemingly lost president, who has apparently learned nothing from the never-ending barrage of upper cuts to the chin his bipartisan efforts have suffered during the past 22 months.

The people did not vote in the Republicans over the Democrats in order to cut the deficit. Boobus Americanus does not really care about deficits. To them the word is an abstraction. What they want is jobs.

Obama's only chance to avoid a failed presidency is to come right out of the gate immediately with a proactive jobs bill that addresses the country's stone age superstructure. This kind of legislation is how real jobs are created and how money is put squarely into the pockets of the American people instead of Wall Street. Then let the "party of no" say no to jobs and watch as they twist in the wind until 2012.

Finally, seizing the agenda right now must also include a thorough house cleaning. It is time to get rid of the old Cabinet and all of the other advisors, whose allegiance is to the "banksters" and the military establishment, and replace them with individuals who embrace the extremist idea of representing the American people. Obama has to stop preaching and instead put on the boxing gloves and bring the fight to his enemy. Unfortunately, Las Vegas odds makers place that eventuality near zero. Barack Obama is what he is: a teacher and not a strong leader who demonstrates decisive action even if that action must be adversarial in nature.

November 7, 2010