I would think he gets it now. There is a subsonic rumbling in America. It breaks out like a volcano on the cable shows. Gas emits from the Palin Beck coalition in the name of taking back America. They took back the election in upstate New York and gave it to a Democrat. They took away two governors from the Democrats. Ok. There is some palpable tremors now in the Obama landscape. Issues need to be addressed and it is nothing new…JOBS!
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. Right. Right. JOBS. Americans need jobs. They need to go back to work and not go to teaparty rallies or join 9/12er petitions. We need work. Work is central to happiness. Humans need to be occupied. WE DONT CARE ABOUT THE BANKS ANYMORE…HELLO!!! The American people are unhappy. They need to be able to feed their kids, pay their mortgages and get back on track with living. This Viet Cong life is getting old fast where you just don’t know when the next shoe will drop.
So what happened? A slap in the face to the President. YES! WAKE UP! WE NEED HELP STILL! OK. The American people are still behind President Obama, but they need JOBS. They need work. This is something FDR saw as fundamental. He said it many times, Americans need relief but what they really need is WORK. The races the Democrats lost are wake up calls in that respect. Business as usual will not work. STIMULUS 2 or whatever, but JOBS JOBS JOBS.
The good news is we saw a the far right implode and shoot itself in the foot. Seems Americans still cannot stomach radicals in any from telling them who is good for them. The Republicans will have to deal with what they have created. But President Obama should take a minute and bring in all those smart people around him and start a meeting with one question: OK HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK? NOW!
Bill Hazelgrove writes in Ernest Hemingway’s attic. His latest book is Rocket Man
