COMMENTARY | He took out Osama bin Laden, and Anwar al-Awlaki. He led from behind to the successful demise of Moammar Gadhafi and is ending the war in Iraq, but like George H.W. Bush in 1991, President Barack Obama's successes abroad don't mean much among an increasingly xenophobic and self-indulgent electorate clamoring for an upswing in the economy. "What have you done for me lately?" ask the people who want to party like it's 1999.
According to the Huffington Post, the needle of support isn't moving for the president whose approval is languishing near its all-time low. While support for his handling of terrorism is up to 64 percent, only 40 percent of the people approve of his handling of the economy and domestic issues. Americans are upset with their government for their own plight, so the plight of those abroad bears no weight in politics or elections.
Truthfully, jobs are overrated. I haven't had one in 20 years. We need to earn an income, but jobs are just one way in a plethora of options available to earn money, and the president isn't responsible for any of those many options.
My disapproval for the president is that I'm a liberal and I don't see him suiting up on the matters I expect a liberal president to fight for. I don't see him saying things like "I'm not a 'secret Muslim,' but so what if I was?" And what happened to closing Gitmo?
I don't see him standing up and saying there is a difference in what we believe as individuals with religious conviction and what we believe as a nation about the nature of freedom, and that for that reason, same sex couples should have their marriage rights protected under law, rendering therefore what is Caesar's unto Caesar and to God what is God's.
I don't see him standing up on behalf of immigrants, legal or otherwise, stating emphatically from the bully pulpit that our immigration laws are unnecessarily unfair to poor people and that we are a better people when we seek first to help others and then to protect ourselves, rather than the other way around.
He has my vote by default, and that's a sad fact indeed. I miss 2008 Barack Obama. Man, I really liked that guy. Let me know if you see him.
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