He Just Doesn't Get it

I've come to a conclusion about President Obama. He doesn't get it! He doesn't understand that he is President of all of us, even those of us who disagree with him. George W. Bush understood this, Ronald Reagan understood this, even Bill Clinton seemed to grasp this concept most of the time.

What the President has to understand is, the campaign is over and now it's time to run the country for all Americans, not just the liberals. He'll have to shore up his base in 2012, but it's 2009 right now. He's got this job until at least January of 2013, and while he's in that office, he is President of all of us. It's time he start acting like it.

For instance, it's insulting and embarrassing when he says something like this in a foreign country (he said this while in China):

"It's very important for the United States not to assume that what is good for us is automatically good for somebody else. We have to have some modesty about our attitudes towards other countries. We think it's important nevertheless to be true to our ideals and our values. And we... When we do so, though, we will always do so with the humility and understanding that we are not perfect and that we still have much progress to make. Uh, if you talk to women in America, they will tell you that there are still men who have a lot of old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in society."

I want my President to be a man who believes in America, not someone who thinks he has to apologize for it or make excuses for it. I would argue that a majority of Americans would feel that the above statement is offensive at some level (if they could ever find it in the liberal media). Sure, the 20% of Americans who will actually admit to being liberal will like this statement (and that is his political base), but they aren't the only Americans he represents.

I don't think America is perfect...nothing of this world is perfect. But, the leader of our country shouldn't be flying around the world and pointing what he or she perceives as our flaws. Yes, we have flaws, but let's not lose sight of the fact that America is the greatest country on earth. The leader of our county should be touting all that makes America great. He should be spreading a message of freedom to the world. Instead, he chooses to make America appear weak, and in the process he makes himself appear foolish.