Why he's President

Our past presidents got the job due to their charismatic appeal, their eagerness to represent the working people, their passion to be assuredly different and greater than the last, and let's not deny their ability to raise tons of money. As each of the presidential candidate's future appears to be earnestly bright, their legacy would be essentially determined by the economic status of the country. In the next five years, we will cast our vote for the next president and the job the of the last - Barack Obama.

My excitement over a temperate African-American presidential candidate who did not play on extremes is undeniable. Throughout the debates, traveling, interviews along the campaign trail, he did not tire. It was a good sign in itself that he would be able to withstand four to eight year journey of media pressure, foreign relations, as well as defending his beliefs on critical decisions he would have to make for us. As he eloquently speaks, it is not verbatim from a teleprompter nor from a stack of papers of which he should read from. His words came from his core. I could tell by his improvisation. I could tell because he did not look down. I could tell because...maybe he meant it.

As I dutifully engage in Republican primaries, charisma, eagerness, passion, and ambition are all in the punch bowl. Rick Perry is amusing, but he is more theatrical than honest about the welfare of the struggling. Michelle Bachmann is brazen, though she is not as knowledgeable in areas that would be required of the President of the U.S. Ron Paul seems like a common sense fellow, but only if we lived in a hypothetical world; you can't expect people to be benevolent and the economy to work out on its own. (You do remember what happened with communism, right Mr. Paul?) Newt Ginrich is self proclaimed historian who has been around and can bank on his familiarity, but this country is more than history, IT IS PEOPLE. Mr. Gingrich is actually unfamiliar with how the world is on a humanity level. Jon Huntsman could be a good contender, but he doesn't like campaigning and therefore is not good at it. Mr. Huntsman, that is kind of a big deal of the job description for a president. Throughout the whole term, you are constantly trying to win US over. And Mitt Romney, you're a very good campaigner but...who are you? Where do you stand? Mr. Romney, I get that you want to represent wherever you are positioned, so you are effective at running Massachusetts or any other state. This is the United States - it's multiple states. Where is your collective thinking? This country is eclectic, and you are not (just like, by demographic, Massachusetts is not.)

By virtue of the Democrats not doing the best job of convincing us why the President of our states is effective - I will help. For over seven decades, we battled over the prospect of universal healthcare from FDR to the Kennedy's to Hillary Clinton. All were unsuccessful. Many say Obama should have focused on the economy when he got into office, but he had momentum with this, and he ran with it. Without his leadership, we could have gone on another 7 decades without it. Who knows? Now insurance is available to everyone and I believe life is a right. Regulations of the banks is a work in progress. Republicans do not wish to see more government interfering with the private, financial sector, yet without regulation our money will be like the game of monopoly at the likes of those who went to schools such as MIT. We can't understand derivatives, so bankers use it to their power and that has been the fall of our nation. Obama is setting forth agencies to oversee how our money is handled. War in Afghanistan was never quite understood. 9/11 happened, but why? Where are sending our troops? What are they doing? Why? There are few concrete answers, if any, so the commander-in-chief found a way out of it. Tax cuts. Republicans can do without extending tax cuts, true it will be murky in our national money pool, but the unemployment is still high and the middle class is hit as usual with picking up the pieces. The divide between rich and poor is larger than deficit. The middle class pays more taxes because we can't afford to invest, yet the wealthy can make it mostly off of investments which get hit at a lower rate. What we need is tax reform. The President finally got angry enough to call his "team" out so that they can agree to ease the pressure on working people. Talk about it. Discuss and get in done so we can work out a plan for ourselves as well. The President has done a lot, and that's why he's president - because we believed in him in 2008. And if we still believe in him now, he will believe in us to reelect him because the next term belongs to him.