I am very disappointed about President Obama and his response to this election. I really think he is failing to speak the truth to the American public, and instead is saying what his party operators and mechanics believe to be a strategy of some sort, in keeping a very particular public face.

For example, he shouldn’t say our democracy is fine, when people don’t vote.

One reason he loses support from males (and some females) is his lack of public demonstration of power. We are hierarchical apes and sometimes the alpha male has to stand up and beat his chest, or the group starts to doubt his alpha-ness. That’s why the wingnuts worship RWR - because he beat his chest.

Trying to be too intellectual has hurt President Obama’s achievement score. His 6 years has mostly been as a manager, the guy who makes sure paper pile A goes in basket B. His sole major accomplishment was the passing of a Republican inspired health bill that the GOP now despises and uses to hit him over the head with.

I did not vote for President Obama either times, because he never gave me a reason to, and I did not like the Democratic operatives who kept, in late 2007, pushing him as the obvious Democratic choice (over Hillary and the others) with their arguments being mostly theoretical about vote strategies.

Obama won in 2008 because Americans were war weary. If Gore had taken Florida in 2000 then today Barack Obama would still likely be just another Illinois politician.

I challenge the Democratic faithful to be more open to introspection on what it really means for them to be involved in politics these days. What do you really want?

During my lifetime I think there has only been 1 US President I can look back on and sort of admire as a national leader, and that was JFK, and he was quite a flawed man but somehow (perhaps enhanced through assassination) made a legacy that surpassed his flaws.