Hi Doves

 

I ran across this interesting article because the time is ripe for this to occur should a major catastrophe (National Emergency) happen within the U.S. before the Mid-Term Elections scheduled for November and he used his new Executive Order to declared Martial Law (signed on 01/11/10).

 

Obama should quit Democratic Party, work for Americans

Aug. 4, 2010, Tennessee Voices

By Richard Cook

Published on August 3, 2010

On July 18, The New York Times ran 15 brief com­men­taries from pun­dits and poll­sters, all under the head­line “How Can Obama Rebound?” All the ideas were vapid, bor­ing and very pre­dictable.
Most of the writ­ers wrote, with­out much sur­prise, that Pres­i­dent Obama needed to “to move to the cen­ter” and then explained how he could do this. It was all about pol­icy shifts, it was all about sound bites, and most impor­tantly, it was all about a two-party system.

Dur­ing the past pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, Obama talked often about bipar­ti­san­ship. There were no blue states, there were no red states, there were only the United States. But then, Ted Kennedy died, and Repub­li­can Scott Brown won his seat. Repub­li­cans can now block any leg­is­la­tion. Bipar­ti­san­ship is dead.

Yes, Obama must move to the cen­ter, but the 15 writ­ers were blind to the obvi­ous solu­tion to Obama’s rebound: He must give an address to the nation, long before the midterm elec­tions, in which he says:

“In the 18 months I have served as pres­i­dent of the United States, I have been hum­bled and inspired by the com­mon decency of the Amer­i­can peo­ple. The inflamed rhetoric that comes out of Wash­ing­ton insults this com­mon decency. Amer­i­cans want the gov­ern­ment to work. They don’t want gridlock.

“To ful­fill my sacred oblig­a­tion to the Amer­i­can peo­ple I am required to look beyond party to do what is in the best inter­est of our beloved coun­try. Because of this sacred trust, I have con­cluded that to best serve the coun­try I love, I must resign from the Demo­c­ra­tic Party. I can­not crit­i­cize par­ti­san­ship while being a mem­ber of a polit­i­cal party.

There is a hypocrisy to this that the Amer­i­can peo­ple under­stand. Start­ing today, I will meet with mem­bers of Con­gress to con­front these chal­lenges. I will not meet with Repub­li­cans. I will not meet with Democ­rats. I will meet with Americans.

“The days ahead will be uncer­tain. But the Amer­i­can peo­ple can be cer­tain about one thing: their pres­i­dent is focused on doing what is best for the Amer­i­can people.”

The pun­dits and the poll­sters will howl at this idea, but inde­pen­dent vot­ers will breathe a sigh of relief. The far left of the Demo­c­ra­tic Party can con­tinue to con­demn nuclear power plants and char­ter schools. Obama can embrace these ideas and cap­ture the mid­dle ground. The far right of the Repub­li­can Party can con­demn gay mar­riage and ille­gal immi­gra­tion and mar­gin­al­ize itself in the next pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Obama can ignore these issues and focus on jobs and edu­ca­tion where inde­pen­dent vot­ers demand solutions.

The two par­ties can fight over the fringes of the polit­i­cal land­scape. Obama can cap­ture the huge mid­dle ground and start a new day in Amer­i­can politics.

It will take all of 10 min­utes to do this.