The politics of personal martyrdom.

Good Tuesday morning on this January 19, 2010. I know many are pretty much tuned out and fed up with all things political. However, we cannot escape the fact that these things matter and whether we hide our heads in the sand or not, the decisions made by this government will impact us today and our children tomorrow and their children down the road. Those who have actually done the word count tell us that this President’s most often used word is the word ‘unprecedented’. He uses this word most frequently in discussing all the problems he has had to deal with since taking office. The word actually means: having no precedent; novel; never before seen or done. This means that he sees the problems he has faced to be of such monumental proportions that never has a President or our country faced something greater than those he has had to face. Give me a break a million times over!

Polling data addressing his first year in office indicates that his implemented policies and solutions are not only not working, but the American people have soured on them as well. Here’s how our President responds to these poll numbers: It’s his predecessor, George W. Bush, or it’s the unprecedented economic collapse, or it’s the mean Republicans or it’s people who are angry with him being the President, and the moaning goes on and on and on. Give me a break a million times over! Not once has he ever considered the fact that it just might be his policies and his people who have botched the situation and made it worse. Meanwhile, the state controlled media applauds until their hands hurt over his good intentions. He is trying. He cares. Give me a break a million times over!

What ever happened to results? From bailouts to beer summits; health care to Haiti; from H1N1 to the underwear bomber; and from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan we see one debacle after another but the mainstream media who claim to be the champions of truth are much too busy running public relations interference on behalf of this President to notice or report what’s really going on. Yet, here’s the good thing: The American people are not out of tune. We are supposed to be a representative democracy where our elected officials follow the will of the people. Here's what I see: Elected officials are very nervous right now as they begin to experience a very 'precedent-ed' backlash as people voice their anger over their continued blind, lock-step march behind President Obama’s agenda. I listened to much of his speech from the Baptist Church this past Sunday as he played the role of “black preacher man” and used that pulpit to heap blame on his critics while making himself out to be a martyr. How condescending can one be? What if a Republican, even an African American Republican, had gone in and used that same ‘sing-song street dialect’? We would still be hearing about it and that’s my point. Think about it. Pray about it. And if you are still having trouble staying tuned in enough to see exactly what is happening, then try doubling up on the Community Coffee, because, believe me, it matters! May God help our great nation. Amen. …..More later.