Barack Obama has created the buzz, adulation and adoration of a rock star. He is smart, good looking, personable, dedicated to family and country and delivers a speech with charisma worthy of a King.. or a Kennedy. Thus far he has proved himself a leader: he convinced the majority of the American people, most especially the newer and younger voters he was the right man for the job. He did this with a minimum of the useless rants and raving so common, yes so COMMON, in political campaigns.
His inaugural speech hit all the bullet points and concerns on the minds of Americans and many world citizens and was delivered with brilliant passion and sincerity. Many had tears in their eyes including me. He is convincing us further of his ability and vision and that we are entering a new 'revolution" in our country. The most basic definition of a leader is "one who gets others to follow". In this sense, Jim Jones was a leader. President Obama is offering us so much, and in order to realize his true leadership, we have to drink his kool-aid, a much sweeter drink. Its seems to me his speech and intent brought to life again the wise words of JFK, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." The president and his wife, Michelle took the time to demonstrate their leadership on this by volunteering and sending a strong message with a commercial advertising the opportunity to serve. If we are all in this "change" together, then we must support and do what is needed as much as we can to realize the "United' States of America once again. But this time, on a much more attentive and higher level. The whole works the way it should when all of the parts are working in unison the way they were meant to. Look to Nature for the finest example and how effortlessly it attains balance. There is no person breathing who cannot assist another, even with just a kind word.
President Obama demonstrates this again in his actions. He was quick to repair any damage done during the election, set his ego aside and chose his leadership partners wisely with the intention to heal the national wounds with the candidates he felt most qualified. He spent time at his inaugural balls and had a serious undertone beneath the charming smile, letting us know he understands his great responsibility.
I did not vote for Barack Obama. I wrote in Ron Paul for President and Dennis Kucinich for VP. Ron Paul made sense to me about the need for a third party, as the two we have are in gridlock and self serving most of the time. And Dennis Kucinich wants to create a department of Peace. Why not? In this day of change and revolution of thought should we not have a Peace Department to counter the extraordinary spending in the Department of Defense. A little country called Bhutan could advise our great one about this.
So we all can not only support our new and potentially very great leader, but follow him where he demonstrates true ability to benefit all. Is it right to sacrifice a bit so that others in greater distress can progress? Yes, we will all have to contribute for a better America. It is that simple and my great hope is that the Congress gets that message and realizes that they are the employees of the American people and we pay them to get the job done for "we" as a whole people, not as representatives of special interests and the dollar sign. This has been our demise. They too can demonstrate leadership by following a higher purpose and cooperating with our new President who is demonstrating great potential leadership.
****I am reading my post 6 years into the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama and my view has changed and turned 180 degrees; maybe a double 180 if that were possible. I was dewey eyed like the rest in 2009 and forgave myself for not voting for Obama, thinking I was wrong about my sense of him developed from the time he had that "hand in the cookie jar" look when Hillary (180 degrees away from her too) discovered his dirty tricks accusing her and her husband of racism. I didn' t take to him like so many others, felt he was jumping on board with little to offer. After his first foray into his community organizing approach with a "beer summit" to correct the Cambridge policeman's actions calling it "acting stupidly", I started to watch and wonder again. Does he not have other pressing issues to attend to rather than meddling on a local matter? So it began, the divisive approach to race, opposing opinions and parties, the focus on contrivance rather than the constitution, scandals aplenty, an uncompromising stance on every issue while never accepting blame and constantly blaming the opposition. Positioning himself as healer and preacher while taking every opportunity for political gain, I came to despise this poor excuse for what I had once described as leader.
First came the "beer summit", then Travon, Michael, IRS scandals all the while courting Reverand Al whose back unpaid taxes are in the millions as he visits the White House on so many numerous occasions. Benghazi, Bergdahl, NSA, lack of transparency, though he preached the exact opposite, corporate and media preening, a wife who like her husband goes abroad dissing America and telling graduating students to be aware that because of their race people will look at them "funny". A woman who was heard saying, "for the first time, I am proud to be an American" on inauguration
day; a woman who uses affirmative action and tax payer funds to attend Princeton and Harvard, who never actually practiced law, but worked for a number of years with a 300K salary as a hospital administrator in a Chicago hospital with no apparent experience, only to have the position not replaced when she left.
I began to see the mind set of these people and wonder how after so many years of failure and unpresidential behavior what we had allowed in the highest office in the world. Avoiding the press to interview with comedians, Glosell (bath tub Glosell), on WTF in a garage podcast using the N word. No excuses please! I am counting the days, even more so than with Bush. Obama's predecessor made serious mistakes, but he loved his country. The current leader disrespects the Constitution and then panders to the crowd knowing full well they eat his lies like candy. I am wondering what will be left of American Pride and the Truth, yes the truth that our Founders pondered and worked so miraculously to uncover and debate so as to set a foundation for future Americans. John Adams was so right and so wise when he stated that "Our Constitution was conceived for a moral and virtuous people. It is wholly unsuited to the governance of any other." Good bye to morality and reason. Another way of viewing the world has been contrived in America under the "leadership" of a confused and simple-minded narcissist. We will recover in some space and time when society honors these values once again, but the damage is done and minds are poisoned and programmed and that takes an undoing of massive proportion and the cooperation of the majority to get back to the gifts that were so generously and intelligently deeded to all who would call themselves Americans.*****
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