Doom and gloom replace hope

President ”I won! I won!” Barack Hussein Obama is looking nothing like a statesman. Indeed, POTUS is looking more and more like the Purveyor of Doom and Gloom of modern times; someone with everything going for him, who yet chooses to cast a negative figure that looms dominant in a day when hope and inspiration are as needed as the rain.

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The emerging style of the 44th President of the United States, has got nothing to do with skin colour, but everything to do with attitude. With everything at his disposal, Obama chooses to be callous. Callous in allowing a health czar under the misnomer of a National Coordinator of Heath Information Technology to oversee an aging population. It’s not as if there was any discussion about it. The health czar was merely slipped in to the controversial Stimulus Plan. Obama has also been callous toward any who would disagree with him; callous toward news reporters who happen to ask the wrong question, seemingly callous toward even the very history and ideals that have upheld the country he was elected to serve. While Americans count on a mainline media to cover the import of some of Obama’s more draconian policies, the media shirks the issues and focuses instead on the new president’s supposed clumsiness. Don’t be fooled by the president’s clumsiness, which has him bumping his head on Marine One and walking into a window at the White House thinking it was a glass door located a few feet to the right ([url=http://www.1stnews.org]http://www.1stnews.org[/url]). It’s a far more troubling sign of the times in which we all live that pictures of POTUS bumping his head on Marine One were followed on this morning’s Drudge Report by a New York Times story stating “Many women...are dreaming about sex with the president.” President Obama is a man in a hurry, and men in a hurry bump into things in their haste. Like some of the shallow Hollywood stars who helped put him where he is, POTUS works out and maintains his physique. Long on workouts, he comes up short on patience. Within a few days of election, he needed an escape from the White House and said he got it by reading to school children. Love him or loathe him, Barack Obama seems to be developing into a problem of his own making. Decorum and tradition flew out the window, with an Obama in shirtsleeves and staffers in the White House with no coats and ties. The man who once lectured average Americans “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our houses on 72 degrees at all times” “likes it warm” in the Oval Office. President Obama seems to be hellbent for leather in making the Stimulus Package a fait accompli, predicting only catastrophe and crisis if he doesn’t get his way. “At this particular moment with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life,” was the message of his first prime time press conference in the East Room of the White house, last night. In a single paragraph decent hard-working Americans in the private sector were wiped out. Not only can Obama claim, “I won, I won!” during occasions when the odd political foe dares to cross him, he’s got all the tools necessary to win the power game. Tune in to any radio station in any village in any country, you hear his name. Obama’s picture is omnipresent and they’re even selling Obama T-shirts over at CNN News. Yet Obama, who continues to serve up daily doses of doom and gloom, is a turn off for average people looking to him for even a little hope. Obama wants to change the world--and change it overnight. But much more worrisome are the signs hinting that this seems to be a man who may not be comfortable in his own skin. It almost seems as if he’s a fish out of the water in the White House, as if 232 years of American history don’t count. For at the end of the day, Obama doesn’t seem happy with the trophy of victory, that victory being the future of the greatest nation on earth. Even with a cult bowing at his arrival, Obama pushes aside the positive for the negative. And no one but President Barack Obama can change that.