Obama cannot take any criticism at all

One thing I think that conservatives and political moderates may remember from the Presidential campaigns is Obama's unusual attention to Foxnews and to Sean Hannity in particular. At the time Obama received light treatment from the mainstream media and never really faced tough questions his affiliations with radical leftists. One of the few consistent voices against the then Senator was Sean Hannity, who was one of the first to report on Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and later will leftist radical and Chicagoan Bill Ayers. Hannity constantly hammered these relations while the media ignored it.

To most politicians this would be enough for them to look past it and keep on with their campaign, you never really saw President Bush rail against the leftist media for attacks against him, he certainly never called anyone out by name, and he carried on with the business of governing and campaigning when the time was right. With Obama though, during his campaign he mentioned Sean Hannity by name numerous times, about five, in which he would denigrate the man or call on others to stop listening to the man. One man criticising him and it bugged him so much that he had to fit it into his campaigns at the time.

After the election he found himself in an environment where he was elected President comfortably and his party has also won dominating control of both houses of Congress. No other politician could realistically want to be in a better position to enact policy and yet when he found himself in interviews where a reporter would remind him of the favorable coverage he typically received he was only too clear to mention "well there is one station in particular that seems to always have a problem with my administration" "you mean Foxnews" "yes." The more and more I saw this man the more and more that it came to me that he for whatever reason must be a very insecure man to have so much, to have been riding so much of a high politically and yet still not find solace because it was not absolute adoration. Such a thing is a figurative unicorn in politics.

I would have hoped that a year into office and more experience on the national stage would have gotten Obama past this stage in his life, but recent events have highlighted this trait even more. Following the election of Scott Brown and poll numbers that show that the President and his party have currently alienated a large sector of the American public Obama has lashed out again at those that disagree with him. Rather than attempt to deescalate the situation through an invitation of dialogue on such things as healthcare, he has escalated it through language that frankly will only inflame the partisan divide in this country. Case in point would be the recent state of the union address. I did not catch this address myself, and perhaps thankfully so, but from the highlights to things stuck out to me, the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" which i support, but think that this change should come from the military brass, not politician suits who want to score political points playing social experiments with an instrument designed to protect this nation.

The other thing is his calling out of the Supreme Court on their recent decision to allow cooperation's to fund political campaigns. A decision that I currently feel is a bad one, but Obama mischaracterized this decision in stating that it would allow foreign entities or companies to donate to American politicians. It does not and there is still a law in place against this. A day after having this pointed out the Obama White House still could not admit the error, but that is beside the point. The point would be the unprecedented nature of a President openly chiding the Supreme Court during a event that is supposed to be about proposals for the agenda in the next year. It was partisan politics as has never been seen before and one that should concern Americans IMHO.

Now if that wasn't enough the President today accepted an invitation to speak with House Republicans at a retreat in Baltimore, why the hell would anyone go to B-more to relax? Anyway while there the President once again went on the attack accusing Republicans of painting falsehoods against his administration and in portraying healthcare as "'Bolshevik plot' and telling their constituents that he’s 'doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.'" Both very false, Republicans opposed healthcare because of the massive cost and the way that it would make for an easy government takeover of healthcare down the road. They opposed it because it would make the quality of healthcare in America go down while not reducing the costs and fining individuals who did not buy health insurance. They opposed it because there are better ways to reform healthcare, ones that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has gone to great deals to highlight, only to be ignored by Dems and the white house. They opposed it because it was bad legislation Mr. President, not because they don't like you.

Folks, As I stated earlier Obama is ratcheting up this rhetoric at a time when he has already been in office for one year, one year in which he could have gone to great lengths to bring the real change he promised. His lashing out at others for his failures is concerning to me as I consider that the man has three more years, years in which he will more than likely have less control that he previously had. If he continues to lash out like this than the divide in this country will only become worse as he alienates those that only have marginal dislikes of the man, and encourages those on the far left who seek to impose their agenda no matter what the support for such measures maybe. This is the wrong path and the wrong tact to take and I can only hope that he see's his errors and corrects himself in the future.