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Hot diggity dang, I did it again.
Got to talking to a friend on another posting concerning the contempt-ability of Obama and believe I have come up with a good reason to have my own talk about what could be Obama's real problem. A way to convince the moderates and liberals who are still slightly leaning in Obama's direction that there is a real reason to not re-elect him.
I will begin by reprinting the response that I made to a comment that placed the bulk of the blame on the Democratic Party and Harry Reid in particular on the budget impasse.
"I believe that Senator Rubio has a better explanation for the recent failures in the budget debate, beginning at about the 4:50 mark of his and Senator Coon's appearance on T.V. this morning than blaming just the Democrats or just the Republicans. Maybe his appearance is deceiving me, but he seems to be a bit young to be that wise and understanding.
Harry Reid is no friend of mine, but the fact is he isn't going anywhere for at least another five years.He also does not carry the burden of the blame for the Senate not allowing various bills to pass or come to a vote. Take a look, not at who he is, but what he is.
The highest ranking member in both the Senate and the House of the same party as that which resides in the Executive Branch are the chief en-actors of the Executive Branches wishes in Congress. In other words, the President's top puppets.
Imagine that you are a puppet, the performance is about to begin. The puppeteer is there, ready to pull the string that tells you which foot to lift, which hand to wave, to jump or run, walk, forwards, backwards, forwards square and round(oops, got caught up in a little Rock & Roll there). The curtain rises, your strings don't move , the puppet-master is walking away.
"Master, master", you call out, "Come back. What shall I do?"
His reply, "Wiggle your own strings. Call me when you have a solution."
What do you do? You know the issues, good old taxes and cuts, we should be able to do this. So you get to work. You come up with a plan, they come up with a plan, you both come up with a plan together. Each time you call the President.
" Mr. President we have come up with a plan which we believe is acceptable."
The puppet-master roars back, " A plan? You call this a plan? This isn't a plan this is an insult an affront to the American people! Not at all what I want!"
"What is it that you want sir?", you ask.
This time he replies with that charming little grin of his " Don't play games with me. You know that what I want is whats best for the American people. Now get back out there and get me what I want."
What we have, is a President who isn't even there for his own party, leastwise the country."
This is what the Democratic Party, the Republican Party and the country has had to put up with from this President.
Under the premise that I laid out above, the Democrats are at fault for the budget deadlock. More accurately the fault is on the shoulders of one Democrat. President Obama is a registered Democrat, the others are guilty by proxy.
Just like Senator Rubio gave the Congressional Democrats a break, I want to give President Obama one also.
I present the following under the premise that President Obama is putting forth the best effort he can, does believe that he is doing the best job possible and has the best interests of the American people at heart. That just isn't enough in his case, and it is not totally his fault that he is not an effectual President.
Most of us have heard and many of us place some truth in the theory that Obama is a manufactured candidate. I subscribe to the theory that most Presidential candidates are. Both parties make a practice of it. The Democrats are more inclined to do it as an organizational thing, whereas the Republicans tend to do it within their individual families.
This time around it was the up to the pool of Academic Elite Progressives to provide the next great Democrat President. They really thought they could do it. The best minds in the country, unlimited knowledge at their fingertips a true understanding of the best philosophies. Alas, poor learned, it is one of the very philosophies that those of intelligence are fond of espousing that has been your undoing.
This is the quote as I remember it, " If one wants to be considered successful and truly smart, he must first surround himself with those who are smarter than himself." That isn't 100% accurate to the original, but you get it I'm sure. Now that should actually be considered as very sound and sage. A very logical conclusion. It does not apply to the Office of the President of the United States.
President Obama knows very little about an awful lot. He is intelligent but he lacks in diversity of knowledge. An effective President must know more than the average person on more topics than the average person. He can not take the risk of relying solely on the word of someone whom he considers to have superior knowledge and insight than he himself has. It is his responsibility to be sure that all of the factors have been properly compiled so as to yield an accurate assessment.
President Obama truly believed that he could rely on the greatness of minds other than his own, that was made obvious early on in his Presidency. Many of his appointments were made from the halls of academia which he himself came from. Many have since cut and run. I believe primarily because they found themselves in over their heads, instead of lifting us all to new levels, all that book learning was bogging them down with applicable in theory only, non-applicable in a fluid society.
We elected Obama in a time of financial crisis. He led us to believe that he could help us survive and come out of it stronger. The Senate vote on Obama's economic plan pretty much tells us all we have to know about his knowledge of financial matters. He bounces back and forth between liberal and conservative trying desperately to play the role of a centrist in a reflexist manner wanting to hide the truth. He does not know enough to formulate qualified answers. We do not have the time to allow his ability to learn do it's job.
The above-mentioned philosophy could also lead one to believe that to be successful one would merely have to be able to keep people motivated and focused on that which needs to be done. Once more I must say alas, for he has proven to be the perfect contrast. Has this country ever been so divided since the days of sedition leading up to the Civil War?
So I say to you who are still wobbling, if a more learned Baraq Obama wishes to return in the future we should consider his worthiness at that time. This is not that time. We do not want to return completely to the Washington of old, major changes in personnel in Congress is more imperative than ever. Unless a super person steps forward soon, when it comes to the Office of the President we need to take a step backwards to the basic type of President we have been getting for the last 50 years. Hopefully, it will only be for four years. The power of the one who holds the highest office is counter-balanced and can be over-ruled by the power of the hundreds who hold office in the Congress. This is as it should be.
It isn't going to be easy making the changes in our government that need to be made. Unlike the last fifty years, we can not allow a mistake that has been made to remain.
In an effort to give further thought to the candidate making theories, I would like to wish the Democratic machine in Chicago the best in their current efforts to launch the guy that Obama was the prototype for, Rahm Emmanuel as a Presidential candidate in 2016.
Now it just wouldn't feel right if I didn't leave a little something for those ultra smart people who tried so hard, something they haven't read in any book but are sure learning the hard-way. I call it an Owlism:
"We may all be forced to live by the same rules, but never shall we all play by the same rules." Owls out!
Dang, that one is so profound, I sure hope nobody else has said it quite that way before. Not intending to plagiarize anything just stating an obvious fact.
