Obama and the “N” word

After nearly four years in the White House it is becoming more and more difficult to disassociate President Obama from the N word, negativity that is.

Frankly, I long for the uplifting optimism of the Reagan years. Forget what you may have felt about his politics, Reagan made you feel empowered whereas this president makes you feel you have to constantly look over your shoulder in fear of some corporate establishment screwing you or some politician taking away some benefit for which you have a “right.”

Everything is Negative, every situation is blamed on someone else or some uncontrollable situation. When you position things to go wrong, they eventually will. When you base decisions on faulty or overly optimistic assumptions eventually those decision will go bad. And when you create a constant drumbeat of negativity it will become part of your persona.

I long for the words of JFK or even Roosevelt. Instead of doing for our country we are encouraged to take more from it. Rather than fearing fear, we are told to fear our fellow citizens. Instead of taking a leadership position, we hear America is just one of many.

It’s like we are operating as a giant committee with no designated leader, a few people doing most of the work, no one person taking responsibility and no decisions being made. I hated committees while I was working. I hate them more now.

We seem to be striving for mediocrity. When I hear people say we can pay for this or that simply by raising taxes on five percent of the population it scares me because this reflects a changing attitude. It says we are no longer in this together, we no longer have to pull our own weight, we are entitled! In large measure we can thank the Negativity and victimization perpetuated by Mr Obama.

He has moved us from “we can” to “let them do it for us.”

To be sure what is happening to America is not the fault of one man. However, that one man has the ability to shake us from our malaise. The really sad part is he chooses not to do so, but rather dwells on the N word.

Why me? It’s all that guy Wellington’s fault!