Doesn't America Deserve Honest Leadership?

The American republic is 235 years old; doesn't it deserve honest leadership? Since September, president Obama has been campaigning across the country in many of the tossup states; at each location Obama promotes passage of his "Jobs Bill" or, after that bill failed to pass the Democrat controlled senate Obama has been promoting passage of parts of his jobs bill. The sad thing is that this conduct is neither honest nor leadership.

First of all, Obama knew from the moment he first proposed the Jobs Bill that it would not and could not pass. Nevertheless, Obama was out there chanting "pass this bill now" over and over again. Obama was trying to whip up his supporters into believing that the bill was a good faith effort to help the American economy. Obama, of course, knew that his efforts would not help the economy or the average American. No, these efforts were only intended to help the Obama re-election effort.

So here is the true question: wouldn't a real leader have met with the opposition to look for common ground? Wouldn't a real leader have tried to find some compromise with the Republicans? Wouldn't a real leader have pick out the items that both sides could support and push those? In truth, Obama made it easy for the Republicans in Congress to just say no to his jobs bill. By insisting on all or nothing, Obama achieved the inevitable result of nothing. No help for the unemployed. No reduction of the federal deficit. No increase in economic growth. No new industries established. Just plain nothing! So we got no leadership from Obama.

Nor did we get honesty. At each speech, Obama set out the choices as being between his plan and some troglodytic throwback to the 1840's that was being supposedly pushed by the GOP. Obama never fairly characterized the Republican position, not even once. Again, this made it inevitable that no common ground was found between the GOP and the Democrats. Obama guaranteed no help for the unemployed, no economic growth and nothing good at all.

With America is such an extreme crisis, we need an honest leader, not a speechifying phony who cares only for himself and his own future.

Obama has got to go!