How To Win In 2012

President Obama has been struggling to find his voice. The man who spoke with eloquence and purpose during the '08 Campaign has been lost and by some forgotten. If Mr. Obama is going to have a second term he needs to speak to the anger and frustration that people are feeling. Because right now people are mad that they got screwed over by the Wall Street banks and frustrated with the government they elected. The majority of Americans who voted for Mr. Obama voted for him so he could change a broken Washington and get Democrats and Republicans to at least talk to each other. Instead we have more fighting and more debt with nothing to show for it. The once great middle class is sinking and the wealth gap in America is the biggest its been since the Great Depression. Where is the leadership?

The millions of moderates, liberals, and even conservatives that energized his campaign feel let down and disappointed. How can you blame them? Nearly a third of homes in America are underwater and the unemployment figures continue to disappoint. Add on top of it the seemingly endless gyrations in the stock market, people are hungry for a leader. That is why the Republicans are still searching for a voice and are unhappy with their current crop of candidates. Only one president has one reelection with unemployment over 8% and that is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Obama could learn a few things by studying FDR and his campaign. He should especially listen to the speech he gave at Madison Square Garden in October 32, 1936.

*You can read the speech at http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3307

or listen to the MP3.

The Atheist In Chief

In twenty-first century US society most people believe, rightly, that one should not be judged on their religion, race or creed. That is unless you are a non-believer. In the era of Obama many people bask in the self righteousness of a country who's first president was a slave owner and their 44th a black man. But we seem to not acknowledge that no political figure in the US could be elected president if he or she were a stated Atheist. The idea of it conjurers up the end times, were as it is written in the Bible, the anti-christ will be a charismatic embodiment of satan who wins over the favor of the masses and then comes to rule the world. The christian-right in this country do actually believe this literal and obviously insane interpretation of The Book of Revelations. That is why Obama will and must keep pretending that he is a Christian. He states that he believes Jesus Christ is the son of God. Although oddly he doesn't go to church every Sunday or actually even belong to a church anymore. His father was Muslim but did not raise him and his mother who did, was an intellectual and a product of the counter culture movement of the 60's. Mrs. Obama did not raise Barrack in any particular religion and her second marriage was to a Pakistani immigrant of Muslim background.

Mr. Obama does not fit the profile of a god fearing man, he is well educated and was not born into any religion. He is though smart enough to not come out and say that he is a non believer because with 25% of Republicans believing that he is the anti-christ he is a good enough politician to know that the number would double or triple if he had the "audacity" to say he is a moral atheist who is not the spon of satin. Mr. Obama could stand up and tell the American people the truth that he like 15% of Americans does not believe in a God. And that although it might be hard for people to imagine that one does not need to believe in a deity to be a good person.

PS

-Here is a link to the top site of 3,720,000 pages that comes up when you google "obama antichrist". o.bamapost.com

-Here are a couple books related to my post about atheism that are interesting and very insightful for believers, agnostics and atheist "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens' "God is Not Great".