Mr. President: Please focus on These Things!

The debate is how Barack Obama should conduct his campaign for re-election. Should he imitate FDR and attack? Should he emulate Bill Clinton and run toward a centrist position? Should he continue as the Great Compromiser? Maybe he should just fold up his tent and steal away.

This is what I do know: people are tired of Congress. Obama has spent altogether too much time trying to get them to do something. No one wants to hear another word from any of them, nor about them. Our two-party system has degenerated into trench warfare. There is very little to be said for hunkering down in the trenches, and firing mortar rounds. To try to establish a base in the middle of that gruesome warfare means getting fired at from both sides. Obama should not even run against them. He should run for things!

He should run for a fair tax system, in which everyone is taxed fairly.

He should run for an honest banking system in which customers, and not executives, get a good deal.

He should run for ending both overseas wars, now!

He should run for creating jobs, in any and every way possible.

He should run for protecting Social Security and Medicare.

He should run for the things every poll says the great majority of people want: fairness, jobs, health care, a secure retirement, and end to war; not phony bi-partisan cooperation, stalemate, and blame.

Don't run as a political partisan! Run with a clear program in mind! Let the politicians be for or against those things. When the election comes, the people can decide who they want in office; people who are for, or against, those kinds of things.

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