Um Excuse Me? After All I Am the President!

The reason I have decided to undertake the writing of this particular blog is because I am embarrassed and bewildered beyond measure by the treatment and response to our President, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama’s recent State of the Union address conducted on last night.  This address, once again provides another excellent example of why he is such a superb President.  His work ethic, genuine concern, and leadership towards all citizens will forever set him a part from many of our previous Head of States.

A quick run-down of this message saw the POTUS focusing on Income Equality.  He passionately reiterates his stance against the rich doing really well, while everyone else is not even given a fair shot at doing the same.  After his stance against the Buffett Rule, where wealthy Americans can enjoy a lower effective tax rate than those in the middle or lower class is taken, President Obama proposes that anyone making over 1 million dollars will be required to pay a tax of at least 30%.  At the same time, deductions would be eliminated on Americans earning more than one million.  This would make a major tax hike for the wealthiest citizens, which by the way, only boils down to common sense fairness.

THIS HOWEVER IS NOT THE FOCUS OF THIS BLOG.  The focus is being placed on how individuals in visual or vocal positions, approach the President and how they speak of him.  This blogs focuses on college educated media representatives who lack tact.  This blog focuses on the Bad, and The Ugliest of Politicking.

First, House Speaker John Boehner said he was expecting a speech that would propose “more spending, higher taxes, more regulations,” something he called “pathetic”.  CNN writer, Charles Riley, from whom the majority of the facts in this blog is attributed to, even notes that these comments were “unusually strong for a member of the Congressional leadership”, and goes on even further to state what has all but become obvious, that the White House will face all out difficulty and little cooperation in passing any legislation.

So wait, the President is being hindered from doing his job because of jealousy, insecurities, and lack of common sense from the GOP as well as the Democratic Party? Mitch Daniels' Republican response to Mr. Obama’s first four years in office is that, “He has shown himself to be a divisive failure that has chosen class warfare and stifling big government.”  So caring for the overall benefit of the people takes precedence over the government.  Duh!

This all translates to pure, blatant disrespect and unprofessionalism.  To hear America’s leaders, politicians, elite newscasts/media, and distinguished publications refer to Mr. President as “Barack” or “Obama” as if he was a musical artist, entertainer, or Pop-culture icon instead of the acclimated leader he is, is embarrassing and as Boehner aforementioned, “pathetic”.

Obama is not God, and he is not above any one man, boy, or girl, but he IS the Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard- educated leader of these United States of America, whose countless hours, sleepless nights, unprecedented work ethic, and dedication to the lowest of the lows, as well-as-the highest of the high American citizens merits respect on these credentials alone.

My status as an imperfect human with a very once in awhile tendency to have emotions, would even go as far as to say that his credentials should DEMAND the respect he is not given, but that is what makes Mr. Obama so unique.  He maintains his integrity and coolness under pressure and he never changes his morals and bearings to reflect the lack of those around him.

Now the reasons for this disrespectful lack of morals and jealousies will be saved for another blog and another day but just know that John 1:5 says, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.”  Obama is indeed this light that will always overcome the ever-present darkness of this world of politics and government.