[img]583|left|Eric L. Wattree||no_popup[/img]I love President Obama, but he is scaring me. He could be one of the best Presidents America has ever had except for one serious shortcoming. He doesn’t have the killer instinct necessary to survive in Washington, D.C. I thought he'd learn from the whipping that the Democrats just took in the last election, but he already is talking about compromising.
How can you compromise with people who have clearly shown that their primary mission is to undermine America? All their talk about a smaller government and lowering the deficit is a smokescreen. What the Republicans are actually after are three things, their return to power, the corporate control of America, and to be rid of this Black President, not necessarily in that order.
Yeah, I said it. Racism is the driving force behind their unprecedented anger against this government. No, not all of them are racists. Some are acting on greed. Others are simply dumb. The greedy are pulling the strings. Relentlessly, they are stoking the flames of racism within their social conservative storm troopers to promote their interests.
Three Kinds of Republicans
The Republican Party is made up of three factions, fiscal conservatives, the generals who control the party; social conservatives, whose ignorant bigotry against anyone who doesn't look, think, and act like they do make them the perfect storm troopers;finally, the true conservatives, who are inundated by the constant drumbeat of disinformation. The last group is the one President Obama should be appealing to. Instead, he seems fixated on the first two, people he never will be able to appease. Many of us scratch our heads over that. We cannot understand how a man who is otherwise so intelligent can be so hopelessly in the dark on this issue. I think I know why.
It goes back to a coping mechanism that Obama developed early in life. As a child, he lived all over the world. He always has been different from everyone he has known. He grew up as the ultimate outsider. On one hand, it was beneficial in his development, causing him to push himself to the limit to maintain his self-esteem. On the other, it caused him to develop a go-along-to-get-along coping strategy to fit in. While that strategy obviously served him well earlier in life, it is not what the American people want to see in a President, the last thing we need at this point in history.
America is fighting for its life. Corporatists within the Republican party have been allowed to become so powerful and so greedy since the Reagan administration that they're not about to be reined in. An entire generation of corporatists has come of age not knowing anything other than having their own way. They will tear this nation apart before giving up power, which is what they are doing.
We Need a Gen. Obama
What is most horrifying is that Americans are so distracted by the entertainment media and brainwashed by the news media, they don't know they are in a fight. Look at what has happened since we last had a functional democracy. First, Reagan all but destroyed our unions, which made us totally dependent on the corporatists. They destroyed our educational system, repealed the Fairness Doctrine, and gained control of 90 percent of all the media in the country. By taking control of the media they were now in control of what we think, and by destroying our educational system they deprived us of both our sense of history, and our ability to be independent thinkers, leading directly to the debacle in the last election.
They have now stacked the Supreme Court with conservative cronies. The court is even more conservative than it was when they disenfranchised the American people and handpicked George Bush as our President in the 2000 election. Now, in their “Citizens United” ruling, a corporation based in Dubai can have more control over our electoral system than an America citizen. Can you see where this is going?
It is essential the American people wake up from their trance and start making noise. It's time we let President Obama know we don't want to hear the word compromise slip from his lips again for the next two years.
We don't need a diplomat. We need a general.
Mr. Wattree may be contacted at wattree.blogspot.com or Ewattree@Gmail.com
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