It is easy to blame President Obama, but he's just a symptom. For some reason Americans occasionally decide to hate themselves and go into a major funk. We send our economy into the toilet, start firing people and electing well-intentioned incompetents to national office.
Now Americans are either looking for a bailout or loathing those who are. We express an impotent rage by fighting over tax increases or gay marriage, when the real problem is we have collectively drank the "Stupid-and-Whiny" Kool-Aid.
America, we need to get a grip.
The Carter years, which followed the Ford years, which followed the Nixon years, which came on the tail of the Viet Nam years and the Johnson Administration was our last major Stupid-and-Whiny episode. It's easy to give President Reagan credit for pulling us out of that one, but he only showed us the way.
But I remember once hearing someone say "sometimes you need a Carter to get a Reagan". Maybe we needed an Obama to get who we really need to step up.
In the meantime, America and my fellow Americans, we need to pull our heads out of our fourth point of contact. When we do, things will start to improve.
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