Obamatopia

It is high time someone calls out Barack Obama not on his policies, not on his ideas, but on his leadership.

This man does not act like a leader, he doesn’t speak like a leader, so why did he want to be one? His speech at the United Nations personifies this fact.

He began his speech by declaring HIS honor of speaking to the UN for HIS first time as President. Let me list some of the over 30 times he used himself in pronoun…

• “I have been…”
• “I took office…”
• “I believe…”
• “I am well aware…”
• “I will…”
• “I carried this message…”
• “I prohibited…”
• “I ordered…”
• “I’ve made it clear…”
• “I have outlined…”
• “I appointed…”
• “I’ve said before, I’ll repeat…”
• “I will not waver…”

So as you can see, he talks about himself…a lot. Then came this video by Congressman Tom Price about the President’s difference between the campaign and the job (or lack thereof)…

There are numerous other examples of this narcissism. However it leads all to one conclusion, one I’ve seen since he was a candidate, Barack Obama wants to be celebrity. He wants attention (good of course). You can tell that he was the oddball kid and the “different” kid and young man. He was probably not given much of anything close to attention of gratitude. He’s the geek who has all of a sudden become the BMOC.

My message is “Mr. President, don’t let that title go to your head.” But it’s obvious it already has.

When you go to the UN and represent the over 300 million Americans that live here, the word “I” should almost never come up. You say “The United States believes…”, “The United States has made it clear…”. I don’t know where he gets off taking credit for this country.

Barack Obama, I contend is using the Presidency to further inflate his stardom and consequently, his ego. The American Executive is only a means to an end. I sought the highest exposure job he could get. What a shock then when we’ve gone less than ten days without seeing him since January 20!

The Presidency is not a reality show. The White House is not YOUR home. Nor, was it President Bush’s, or any other Commander in Chief. That title of “President” before your name isn’t a status symbol. It’s not just another sure-fire way to get on TMZ.

If I may, “the time for games has past…” This is the big league. This time, your charm won’t save you. Your rhetorical ability won’t help you. All you’ve got is your gut, your core instinct, and your experiences.

After over seven months I say to you again… the campaign is over Mr. Obama. Now you ARE the leader, you ARE the representative. You didn’t sign a four-season contract on a game show, you’ve got a four year mandate as the leader of the free world. For the sake of us all, I hope it’s just your four years of fame.

Look Who's Coming to Class...

In May I graduated from my public High School in St. Louis, MO. It was the most exiting and prideful event of my life. Little did I know I got out just in time.

On September 8 a visitor will greet the public school students of America over their TV screens. President Barack Obama will speak to my former comrades. I would hope the President could use his high office and the historic nature of his tenure to hit home some broad, well agreed upon tips and encouragement to our kids. Don’t do drugs, stay in school, don’t drink alcohol under age, and anyone in America can make it if they work hard.

That would be nice. However, President Obama’s Education department is trying to make this an exercise, not a special message. In the now deleted report, the administration is said to encourage teachers to participate in activities that will encourage them to “help the President”. Not help the country, not help our fellow citizens, help HIM!!!

Now I’m sure he’s not stupid enough to make a public push for government healthcare directly to America’s youth, but the mere pre and post speech activities leave members of the National Education Association, of which all public teachers belong and which is the backbone of the President’s party, alone in the classroom with some very ambiguous instructions on how to instruct kids to “help the President”.

This opens the door to liberal teachers (most are) having the excuse to gently or aggressively tap into the universal liberal ideal of “organizing a community”. But this community is America’s children. The very lives that are the easiest to mold and yield at least two votes each.

I encourage each of you to either go to school with your child on September 8, keep them home, or if your kid insists, or ask him/her to bring a digital recording device so that if the teacher gets out of line, you’ll hear about it and publically expose them.

If that’s not enough, I would like you to go to www.hallpassonthat.com. My good Tea-Party friend Dana Loesch has set this up to be a conduit through which we can oppose this open book youthful community organizing in schools we pay for. As the site’s motto says… “Parents, not the President, determine what you learn”.