Last night a sitting President of the United States of America took time out of his busy schedule to do an interview on a late night talk show. It's a disgrace. I've been giving our new president quite a bit of leeway, giving him a chance in my mind to be a good president. I think it is an American obligation to give the president the benefit of the doubt, but let's face it, the president should not be doing frivolous interviews with big chinned idiots on late night television. It was annoying when candidate John McCain was going on Saturday Night Live to make an ass of himself, same goes for Sarah Palin. But a sitting president acting like a complete jackass on television is ridiculous.

Sure, he wasn't acting like a clown on a stupid sketch show that should have been canceled 14 years ago. He was even treated like the Christ while on the Tonight Show. However, it is getting really old. A couple  of days ago on ESPN he was covered filling out his  NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket, as though that is even remotely close to actual news. What's that have to do with running the nation? Absolutely jack-shit. I get that he is trying to make it seem that he is a regular guy. But there is a certain point where he needs to start taking his job as seriously as he takes himself. A little bit of discretion and professionalism go a long way to presenting an image of a true head of state.

It is time that our president starts behaving like a president, hell at this point I would settle for acting like an adult. I don't want a president who at any moment could show up on TMZ along with a story about the world's dumbest "celebrity" Paris Hilton. The world's leaders will only play along with the new president for so long, but as he continues using all of his time to appear on popular culture programming on television, he will have lost all of the credibility that he has. Sure, George W. Bush's borderline Fascism made America look bad in the eyes of the world, but a president who is mentioned in the same "newscast" as Miley Ray Cyris certainly isn't going to have a lot of luck bringing peace to the old Middle East.

It's time that the American People stand up to Our President and Media, ask them to carry themselves with a little bit of dignity. Who knows if the America I knew as a child will even still exist in 4 years if this shit keeps up? When I was a kid we were a nation totally against the Commies in Russia and Communism and Socialism the world over. Now, we are on the verge of full blown Socialism, as evidenced by Our House of Representatives passing a bill that taxes a specific group of people to offset their bonuses, but that is for another rant about how the government has officially gone on the offensive against the rich in an attempt to keep in good graces with the far greater populace of poor, it won't last for long, because eventually the "burgeois" middle class will be attacked as vociferously as the "rich" and their goodwill will be gone forever.

The fact of the matter is that the President of the United States needs to present the image of a leader, and going on to lame late night television talk shows is not the image that we need. Pure and simple, Barack Obama needs to get over his ego, it may have gotten him elected, but it will almost certainly get him unelected in 2012 if it continues.


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