In reading another blog called 2200 Questions the other day I actually had to stop and applaud the writer as he verbalized what i’ve been feeling for months.. in responding to those people that seem to enjoy pointing fingers and/or blaming others, as well as the President for our nations problems. I’ve posted his comments here (with some editing for language).

Perhaps it is that we’ve been lied to so much and so often that when a genuine word slips past one’s lips we analyze it for the lie as apposed to for the message. Where you heard “I’m fighting for health care, spend spend spend, stay the course, I want bipartisanship,” I heard “get off your lazy apethic asses, TELL these fools to stop f*** around with your money, with your health, with your nation – all for their f*** votes and their power trips – FORCE them to do right by you, and TAKE what you want from these a*holes who have been STEALING from you for the past however many decades. Because I can only say what ever I want to have done,  I can only lead you there – I cannot walk for you.” Perhaps some of you should revisit the State of the Union Address, now..

Instead, we stand still, looking to this one man to solve all of our problems. Then look at him cynically when he expresses his desires for something to be done. We give him that “nigga please” look when he calls to us to move beyond….. We blame him (or the government) for our Very Own Feet not moving. Well hell, as I see it, you can not help people who do not want to help themselves. Yes government is flawed. Yes congress is a bunch of men and women catering to their self interests before the American people. But if the nation’s willing to accept that as “the way things go”, even when your Leader is telling you - screaming to you – “You know, it doesn’t have to be this way.. You yourselves have the power to change this,” then those people are not the ones to blame. We are. We are failing ourselves by looking to anyone other than our very selves to find our promise.

We as a people have lost sight of what a leader is actually supposed to do. A true leader doesn’t carry the entire world on his shoulders to move it by him/herself. That leader merely gives the world a direction – the world itself needs to move its feet to find progress. A true leader doesn’t allow us to always cater to what is easiest. He shows us that beyond any struggle their’s a brighter day that we’re fighting for. A true leader doesn’t accept what we 300million people cannot do – a true leader knows in his very heart and soul that there is no single solitary thing in this world or all of existence that we cannot do. Impossible is naught. A true leader imparts such belief to his masses.

I have faith in our President. I have much less in our nation.. If we falter, it is not because he failed us.. It is because we fail ourselves. As a people we are ignorant sheep. And those who have any knowledge twist it to their own gain, as to control their own subset of sheep. As a leader he only asks that we move forward. He can not promise change that we the people are unwilling to adapt to. He can not move a mountain that we hold in place. He can not make us better than we ourselves see a reason to be. For those of you who cannot remember after only a year why you voted for him – for those who can’t think of a single reason as to why beyond him being black or “a different face” or “not McCain” – that is why: because he promised without words to be a great leader. Not to wipe your a888. Not to drag you kicking and screaming into greatness. But to show you a door, and tell you what greatness is beyond it if only we thought to walk through it, instead of just scratching and clawing at the same wall.

With all the love I have for all of the world I must tell you all – wake the f*** up and listen. Grow up and think. Open your eyes and see. He’s already proved to you that we’re all capable of change – he’s our President. Now that we see it’s possible – what in the world is stopping us? Better still…What in the world Can stop us?

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