At a grave peril to all, Obama seems to have misread the notices.
The lost, despicable decade under George W. Bush and the Republicans sent the country looking for an intelligent leader, one who could actually form a complete sentence without making up words, one who was genuinely decent, was honest, and most of all, one who really would passionately stand up and fight for the plight of a country that had been forsaken and shamed. While it's true, we wanted so much to believe that we led ourselves to believe Barack Obama was that leader. His failure, as the most recent polls showing a greater early decline in job performance rating conclude, has been in not being what we wanted to believe he was: that fighter who would "fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong. No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause!" (Man of la Mancha: "The Impossible Dream")
Not so much as to thoroughly wipe the palpable losses of the Bush years from America's obscene graffiti covered wall, the country did, however, expect he would stand up, as he said he would, as he promised he would, against the incredibly corrupt corporate forces that had rendered us low; low in the eyes of the world, low in even our own eyes. But Obama has not stood up, or for much of anything that we permitted ourselves to believe he would. There has and ever will be virulent anger on the Right. But now, it's also on the Left and in the middle, and that is dangerous.
It could be a wild fire summer. As Smokey reminds us, I remind President Obama: "Only you can prevent wild fires." Please do.
The lost, despicable decade under George W. Bush and the Republicans sent the country looking for an intelligent leader, one who could actually form a complete sentence without making up words, one who was genuinely decent, was honest, and most of all, one who really would passionately stand up and fight for the plight of a country that had been forsaken and shamed. While it's true, we wanted so much to believe that we led ourselves to believe Barack Obama was that leader. His failure, as the most recent polls showing a greater early decline in job performance rating conclude, has been in not being what we wanted to believe he was: that fighter who would "fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong. No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause!" (Man of la Mancha: "The Impossible Dream")
Not so much as to thoroughly wipe the palpable losses of the Bush years from America's obscene graffiti covered wall, the country did, however, expect he would stand up, as he said he would, as he promised he would, against the incredibly corrupt corporate forces that had rendered us low; low in the eyes of the world, low in even our own eyes. But Obama has not stood up, or for much of anything that we permitted ourselves to believe he would. There has and ever will be virulent anger on the Right. But now, it's also on the Left and in the middle, and that is dangerous.
It could be a wild fire summer. As Smokey reminds us, I remind President Obama: "Only you can prevent wild fires." Please do.
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