Too busy?

Our President is busy.  You'd expect that.  He's the president.  The middle east is burning.  Iran is pursuing nukes.  Our education system declines while teacher salaries go up.  The cost of health care is skyrocketing.  Unemployment is high.  Gas and grocery prices have doubled in the last four years.

His solution to these crises?  The View.  That's right.  He doesn't have time to meet with the Prime Ministers of England or Israel, but he has time for Whoopi.  He can't take time to confront the leaders or Egypt or Pakistan.  But he has time for Letterman.  He doesn't have time to discuss the investigation with leaders of Libya.  But he has time for a fundraiser with Beyonce. 

I can understand that we are less that less than fifty days to the election, and campaigning is important.  The problem is that this is ALL that he has done in his first term.  Our president is as charismatic as anyone.  But I've come to realize that he believes that he is so likable, everything should go well for him.  He thought the problem with the Middle east is that people hated Bush, but that they would love him.  Turns out that there really are evil people in the world.  He thought that if he said things were better, "consumer confidence" would go up and the economy would turn around, just because people liked him enough to do what he said.

This is why he's been giving nicknames like "Campaigner in Chief" and "Celebrity in Chief."  It's not that people don't like him.  It's that it's not enough.  That's why he hasn't shared any ideas, except raising taxes.  It's not that he's not likable.  It's that he doesn't have any good ideas. 

Mr. President, if you want another four years, don't try to get people to like you.  We do.  But it's hard to reelect someone to a job that they didn't do to begin with.