Finally!!!
A conservative is telling it like it is...
Jump
I have been feeling depressed, repressed, angry, frustrated,impotent,disillusioned, confused, anxious, worried, sad, mad,
dumbfounded, sidelined, pissed off, freaked out, tired and depressed again.
HOW Duh fuck did we get here?
Well in the midst of my funk here comes some light:
Leading conservative economist Bruce Bartlett writes that the Obama-hating town-hall mobs have it wrong—the person they should be angry with left the White House seven months ago.
Where is the evidence that everything would be better if Republicans were in charge? Does anyone believe the economy would be growing faster or that unemployment would be lower today if John McCain had won the election? I know of no economist who holds that view. The economy is like an ocean liner that turns only very slowly. The gross domestic product and the level of employment would be pretty much the same today under any conceivable set of policies enacted since Barack Obama’s inauguration.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
This is telling it like it is but Obama still has some work to do in order to win.
Here is my take on why he is having so much problems.
Why is Obama struggling when he has so much power to move this country forward?
I finally realize why. Obama has not claimed his power! He is still acting like he is the 99th Senator in the Senate who has to defer to a bunch of old ass gas bags!
HE HAS TO CLAIM HIS GODDAMNED POWER NOW!!!
I am going to write him a letter and tell him so.
I know what it feels like to finally accomplish a goal that seemed unattainable. I experienced this when I finally made it to college at 31 years of age after dropping out at 15. Yes, there I was at 31 and a freshman with young whippersnappers who had something to prove. But you know what I made it out the other side and held my ground with those whippers. Somedays I would pinch myself because I could not believe I had made it to one of the top Ivy League colleges in the USA. I felt like an imposter most days and a strong feeling of not belonging.
I believe Obama has not really come to terms with the fact that he is Prez. B
His body is there but his full presence of spirit and other levels of his being is not there yet. Obama is probably feeling like an imposter without even knowing he is feeli-ng this way. He has not has time to process fully what he has accomplished. The man hit the ground running and has not stopped.
He will not be the exceptional Prez he is meant to be unless he claims his power and acknowledges his feeling of otherness and of being an imposter. Being mixed race might not be helping him at this time because coming from such a background he has always had to live in the middle: to see both sides of an issue. He is so accustomed to sitting on the fence and not roiling the waters that he does not know how to get off and plant his feet firmly on one side or the other. Thus we have wishy-washiness and a sense that he is flailing.
RESULT: He gets pushed around and sits on the fence too much. A strong leader has to come down on one side or the other of and issue and stand his or her ground.
This is one of those times. If Obama does not claim his power now on this issue of Healthcare he will be a one term President. And deservedly so!