Obama's Shoes

I think before Criticizing President Obama one must, if possible empathically at least step into his shoes for a moment:

First of all, he is the first black President ever in the United States, and also was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. This alone will put him in the history books even if he served only one term.

Next, he takes office during one of the worst (if not the worst) economic problems that the U.S. has ever faced short of the Great Depression and World War II.

Next, if what is rumored that Michelle said in France is true that paraphrased, "Working at the White House and being First Lady is Hell" then he might be being short circuited by his family as well.

Whatever the group of causes that is affecting Obama in a negative way it is important to consider that he is trying to do the best he can as he said, "Rather than trying to be re-elected." So, what could be said is that he is working very hard to get us out of any wars we are in and to try to keep us out of any new wars in the future because frankly, we're broke and can't afford any more wars thank You.

On top of this is he trying to refloat the sinking ship of the United States and instead of getting praised for preventing the whole thing sinking like the Titanic he is instead being blamed for not getting us to port instead as quickly as the rich might have wanted to go. However, instead he saved the lives of all those in steerage below decks. Their beds might be wet from the ocean water but at least they are still alive and so is the country.

Though as soon as possible I think he needs to have a heart to heart with the nation(like FDR with his fireside chats) because we all know he is smart like a genius but we need to feel his pain and to see his heart. He needs to show us his pain as well as his strength. We don't want to feel like we are all out here suffering alone and that we all are trying to work with a president that is incapable of feeling. We know he is brilliant he has shown us that. However, he needs to show us his emotional intelligence too.

I know these are some of the toughest times any president has had to endure and we as citizens need to show our gratitude to him for keeping the ship of state afloat even if we are chomping at the bit to get back to port and to some sort of normalcy.

Did anyone ever consider that normalcy might be behind us.? Nothing lasts forever. Nations rise and fall and after all we were on top since World War II and that is about 70 years ago now. We might be headed for what Europe experienced after World War II in the 1950s and 1960s. Life moves on. The important thing is that we have survived so far as a nation with almost everything intact.