The President Swears; is He Grasping at Straws?

President Barack Obama speaks to experts so that he knows who to beat down. Spoken like a brawler who has the biggest fight of his life ahead of him. Which, no doubt, he has.

2010 is the year where we will find out whether Barack Obama is the left's Ronald Reagan. Reagan endured animosity and hardship during his first two years in office and faced a difficult mid-term election in 1982. Yet he recovered and became revered as one of the greatest leaders in our history. Is such a turnaround possible for the current Chief Executive?

Well, as they say, anything's possible. Yet Mr. Obama does not appear to have anywhere near the same amount of base popular support as Mr. Reagan did. Nor does he have the charisma of the Great Communicator. Nor does he seem to have quite so clear of a message as the former actor, who said in no uncertain terms that government needed to allow people to be people, to find the strength within themselves to improve their lot in life. Reagan spoke to the American people about trust and a belief one's self. What does Obama offer us?

Swearing quite literally that he'll kick the stuffing out of whoever needs it. After proper consultation with those who know.

Wow. That sure makes us believe in the future of America.

This was not a Harry Truman moment, brought on by the excitement of the time. This was somehow calculated, an attempt to show that Barack Hussein Obama means business. That perhaps is why it sounded so false. It came across almost a flippancy.

Public officials should refrain from even the mildest expletives. But if you're going to swear, make it emphatic. Make it sound like you really believe that it needed to be said in order to make a point. Make it draw attention to, not that the President of the United States swore, but that the swearing sharpened the focus on an important point.

It is interesting to note as well that FDR never spoke, at least in public, of beating the tar out of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Yet President Obama thinks it all right to do it to mere business executives. Is there any wonder why he's losing his grip on the voting public?