“Why don’t they try winning an election”? Maybe the President was out of town, or possibly playing the back nine at Camp David when Republicans cleaned his political clock in the 2010. Once again we see Barack Obama as whole heartedly supporting the tenets of our founding documents, but only as they apply to those who support him and his policies. I remain disheartened over the fact our national electorate has twice voted to put in the seat of power, a man so obviously opposed to most everything we are as a representative republic.
Consequently, I am both hopeful and anxious history will lament this “experiment” for the failure it has been. Not for the color of the 44th President’s skin, as ideological misfits like Robert Redford might suggest, nor even for our political differences on the issues of the day, but rather for the mean-spirited and “un-presidential” manner in which he has comported himself in time of crises and as our Chief Executive. “To be clear”, I believe the president’s failure to lead by example, choosing instead the path of rhetoric and partisan sniping at the most inopportune times, has been anything but helpful in resolving this nation’s mounting difficulties.
