Obama is real!

Obama is real!

Huffpo posted a video of Harry Smith from CBS interviewing President Obama. Watch how Obama reacts after Smith uses the word "treacherous"! His persona changes for a couple of seconds. The President straightens up and looks Smith in the eye and laughs. It was the "You don't want to do that" laugh and it was SO good. Then the most powerful man on the planet quickly reverts to his usual calm, refined, dignified visage. It was a glimpse, an affirmation of the reality of that man. Both headlights came on full bright!

And as bright as that light shines, I am still torn about this President. You have to just love the guy because of what he has done and what he has said. Remember when the mainstream media were wearing us all out over his "patriotism" and all those blog postings and all those pundits and all those ranting racists screamed to high heaven at how Obama was a combination Marxist Antichrist Muslim Taliban Superfly born in Kenya and raised on some exotic soviet controlled Indonesian collective named Hawaii? All he had to say was this, "Everything that I am is because of this country." Nine words. he didn't raise his voice, he didn't cheese, he just looked at the camera and made history.

Then I think about how he is a mainstream center right Democrat. We knew from day one he isn't a progressive. His FISA vote last summer made many of us crazy. I was a "Get FISA Right" member from the beginning. He never promised to be a progressive but he did promise hope and change, and now is the time. The GOP is rotting away! Of course there are plenty of Republicans and neocons out there, but their main political engine is withering. But Big Business is still in control and that is the problem. He has to go both barrels with the media and cut threw the corporate propaganda and do what HAS to be done. Today!