I have to say in the beginning that I admire Barack Obama as a human being and just as a guy.  Other than growing up in a mobile home park in West Virginia like I did, I don't know anyone else who has overcome as many obstacles to get where he is.  I think he's smart, tough, persuasive and unflappable.  The first 100 days of his administration have seen him facing problems that the last twenty years of Presidents have not faced one at a  time much less all at one time..

The problem I have with Barack is not his intelligence.  It's not even his naiveness about the way the business world works versus the Harvard Law School world or Illinois..    Those differences are just about perspective and someone can give him that over time if he doesn't figure it out.  The real problem I have with Barack  is his arrogance and a sort of smugness that comes across as an intellectuall elitism about almost every issue from global warming to polar bear stem cell research.

The mannerism that irritates me the most I that when I hear him speak I don't see someone trying to communicate.  What I hear is someone trying to win a debate.  His posture, his demeanor, his physical walk are all textbook debate postures and gestures.  One would think from his attempted rallying of the American public that he was the first one to discover that passion driven through American exceptionalism may just be the way out of all of this.  Instead of thinking of him as my President and wanting to rally with him, I think of him as an emperor I'd like to run away from.  Sometimes I feel like Maximus from "Gladiator" watching the little weazel of a Caesar impersonator.

When I watch him walk into a room or a press conference or stand in front of Congress, I can't decide whether the swagger (that's right, swagger) Armani clad walk is based in real confidence or fear.  I thought at first that the swagger was confidence.  Now, I think it's masking a bunch of fear.  I don't think he knows how to be President and I don't think he knows the difference between being a cheerleader and a coach.  He'd better figure it out pretty quickly or we're all sunk.

So, here's my  two cents worth on getting Barack to connect more with me:

1. Stop Pointing Your finger to make a point:  First of all, it's rude to point.  Secondly, you reinforce my innate belief that maybe you are smarter than me.  Even if you are, I don't need it rubbed in my face everytime you are in front of me.  Conversations among friends and potential supporters are not punctuated at every turn with "You are a dumbscrew" gestures.  Drop the professor act and be a President.

2. Be a Coach and Not a Cheerleader:  I need real plays and plans to follow if I'm going to be in this game with you and the rest of the country.  I don't need you to remind me of America's past and it's ability to rally from disaster or to turn tragedy into triumph.  At some point you have to stop being Tony Robbins and start being Churchill.  Give me some credit for having read some history on how we kicked England's fanny in 1776 and the Japanese in World War II.  At age 57, my history goes a little further back than the Jonas Brothers last release.

3. Stop Pretending You are working with Republicans:  It's pretty clear to me that you are going to do what you want to do regardless of any support across the aisles.   If you could divert the wind energy that you're expending in speeches and blowing Nancy and Harry, we could fuel alternative energy for the next 20 years.  Your agenda of HealthCare, Alternative Energy, Education, and the Economy are no different than they were when Jimmy (God's Fluffhead) Carter was President.  We've been working on independence from foreign oil as long as the white supremists have been stockpiling ammunition.  Here's a news flash for you:  We need $250 a barrell oil for anyone to even get interested in new sources of energy.

4. Let the Auto guys fail- These guys as an industry are like a child you've let live at home too long.  They've made the same mistakes time after time.  The money is like sending a drug addicted  child to Passages with no committment from the child to make one.  The bailout is just rehab money.  In 6 months they're back on the street.  In my world, when we create something that doesn't sell, we lose money on it.  If I do that long enough, I get to be a doorman at some Red Roof Inn outside of Memphis.

5. Do better Background checks-  I know now why the Democrats aren't afraid to raise taxes:  it's fairly obvious they don't feel the need to pay them.  The good news is that you are batting 100% on the tax cheat aspect of your appointees.  For God's sake, you have the CIA and the NSA and the IRS at your disposal.  Ask one of those agencies to help you identity problem areas with designees before CNN does.  When CNN has to break the news that your Treasury Secretary doesn't know the difference between and itemized deduction and a medicaid payment and still uses Turbo Tax to make the mistake, my confidence level in him designing a bailout goes to near zero.

6. Make the decision on the dog:  Adopt a dog from a shelter.  You pick up 72 million pet owners as new friends when you do.  Pick the labradoodle and not the Portuguese Water Dog unless you want to spend a lot of time in the Potomac this summer.  The labradoodle is so laid back that you will have to put a mirror  underneath it's nose to see if it's breathing.  I have one.  They are huge couch potatoes. 

7.  Tell Al Sharpton and Jessee that it's time to retire-  Both those guys are so out of touch with the world.  Each one of them uses the word "Racist" to clear their throat before they begin to talk.  They just need to start on their autobiographies, speak on college campuses, and do guest shots on Larry King.  I like them and I like their contributions over the years but every time I see them, it feels like I'm watching a Civil Rights Greatest Hits Concert.  The songs are old, tired and sad, and have nothing to do with the future that you've shown is possible.  In Al's future, Blacks are still victims of almost everything...including cartoons.  In your future they are finding more things to laugh about and less things to complain about.  If they want to complain about anything, it should be you.  You've shown them what's possible and that's what's making them scared.

8. Keep Harry and Nancy off Camera when you are on:  Harry has the energy of a Cialis turn down ad and depending on the camera angle, Nancy's back side can block out the sun.  Place her in the wrong position behind you and she looks like a living Public Storage Unit .  The two of them together as national leaders look like one giant ad for Night of the Almost Cool Grandparents.

I think you have about 90 days to get with this program of connecting better.  Isolate your agenda nationally to about three issues that you can really resolve.  Get the economy going.  Put some thieving, lying bankers in jail, and tell the Auto Workers that the game is over.  Ask us for help and we'll help you.  Give Nancy Pelosi an extra 30 million and have her buy an enclave near Santa Barbara where she can't leave and no one else can come in.  Buy Harry Reid Nevada and all the call girls he can stack in a Porta Potty.

If the Middle East were a stock market you should go long on the Jews and short the Palestinians.  Stop pretending that we're just ordering Kosher food for friends when we own the deli.

 Stay out of Afghanistan.  The Russians spent ten years there and left a generation of their own dead on the ground.  Rambo couldn't even win the war there.  The Afghanis play football with a dead goat from horseback, walk barefoot in the snow through the Khyber Pass carrying 50 calibre machine guns and can live off regurgitated sparrow vomit until food arrives.  You can't beat them and they  ain't gonna join you.  Afghanistan will be your Vietnam if you aren't careful and without a second term you won't even be able to say you brought WalMart there.

And don't forget about that finger thing.....

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