ObamaMan in the Mirror

Dracula and other vampires are supposedly unable to see their images reflected in a mirror. Why this is so I'm not quite sure, maybe it's because they are purported to have no souls. Which may explain why President Obama and his followers on the left, well known blood letters where taxes and spending are concerned, are incapable of understanding what's really going on in America today.

The angst and energy on display throughout the summer, demonstrated in town hall meetings, tea party rallies, and marches on the lawn and steps of our nation's capitol, are not because we have a black president or that we're just too ignorant to know what's good for us. No, the reason so many of us have been and continue to be frustrated with Obama's Washington is that we are fed up with runaway spending, ill-conceived plans and self-serving politicians. We're tired of policies that are trotted out and propped up as mainstream when they are clearly the views held only by a minority of our populace. Cap and trade, card check, and the public option in ObamaCare are the most glaring of these. Nevertheless, Obama and his minions remain dumbfounded that they must repeatedly make the same arguments over and over again to a recalcitrant mob. Different day, different location, same speech.

By not acknowledging a large and vociferous dissent from main street America as the primary reason for his joint speech to Congress, the president risks further alienating himself which will push him further down a path that will ultimately prove perilous to him and his party. Misreading the tea leaves of what keeps a democracy alive and flourishing may be unimaginable to one as brilliant and farsighted as Obama, but he'll need a pair of drugstore cheaters to read between the lines.