So tell me, where is the president's coverage? Do he and his staff believe that sitting back and watching the Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot (when claiming a variety of outrageous anti-science arguments regarding a woman's reproductive system) will help the Democratic ticket this fall? Knock the sleep out of your eyes, please, and listen to people like me when we have something to say about how you are being perceived by many in your party.
Here is my Open Letter to Prez Obama:
Where are you, Mr. President? How about a few headlines? Have not your supposed Wizened Advisers realized that with an opponent's name "out there" in bold headlines every day you could be looking rather lame and too-laid-back? Why allow Romney to run the show? He could win, you know. Just because. I suggest you don't rest on the thinking that everyone will suddenly fall by the wayside in headlines after the Akin and Ryan debacles cool down.
Thus far, all I've been hearing from you are campaign speeches. In fact, campaigning sound-bites are just that – brief moments that come and go unless a gaffe or monumental bits of news is/are offered. Stand up – loudly – more than you have – when TV ads and comments are clearly lying about you on whatever level it might be (except reacting to the Birthers again). I want to see you standing in front of the White House Press Corps (those whom you have offended and are currently offending based on your amazing MIA with them). I understand you aren't fond of the political press. Well, it doesn't require a college degree to realize that ignoring a group of professionals who cover your administration isn't what I would call a very wise PR move.
And PR for your administration has been piss-poor from the start. Why? You're a man of The Times. Social media savvy and in touch with ways to inspire people. You would also impress more people if you owned-up to a few of your flaws while, at the same time, touting what you have done correctly and impressively in your first four years. As it is, the Defense Of You has been left to Memes flying around on FB; charts produced by supporters showing your triumphs. Well, it's not enough. You need to pound your chest in your professorial way with a louder voice and cease to be a constantly cool-headed bearer of positive and sometimes not-so-positive statistics and announcements.
If Mitt Romney wins the race in November I will very possibly feel a serious wave a nausea sweep over me, and then I will be on your case as losing what should be the easiest election in years if fought properly. Please don't let that happen. Wake up your snoozing backers. Get them on more TV shows. Don't leave it all up to David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs (yawn) and even the well-intentioned articulate Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Thank God you have Bill Clinton in your corner. Now, there is someone who knows how to work a room, charm the undecided, and make reasonable, logical arguments for why you should receive a Second Term. You may loathe the glad-handing part of politics, but it goes with the job, sir. I don't want you to be fake; yet I don't want you to flake on those of us who are counting on you to save the country from the Tea Party Gone Wild.
So, get to work, man! Give a press conference. Shoot those lies down IN PERSON. Stop eating all those ice cream cones in public as if all is well in the world and thank the people who have helped you up to this point. I gather you don't do that very often. Don't presidents have "Social Secretaries" for things like that? A little "Thank You" goes a very long way. Otherwise, you may find even less voters at the polls this year now that your enemies are stacking the Voter ID Deck. And you are just watching it all happen with nary a comment? Addressing this issue won't bring you down to a low level. It will bring you respect from those who want a Leader who will call out the BS of the opposing party.
Signed,
An increasingly exasperated Democratic voter.
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