President Obama's Cool Aside, Let's Hope the Fight in Him Comes Out

By: Deborah Mathis

There has yet to be a president who does not disappoint. That includes the current one, who is, for many of us, is as good as it gets.

I wish President Obama had told Rush Limbaugh that he would debate him when his ego was small enough to fit into the East Room.

I wish he would be as decisive about reinstituting the assault weapons ban as he was about lifting the ban on embryonic stem cell research.

I wish he would direct the Justice Department to prosecute the authorizers of torture against “enemy combatants.”

I wish he had given Hugo Chavez a book about the cruelties of Latin American dictators since Chavez played the president in publicly offering a book that portrays the U.S. as a thieving, conniving, bullying cheat.

I wish he would tell the various homegrown fiends where to get off when they sling racial invectives at him or call him “facist” or question his religion or legitimacy in office.

I wish he would show some temper, or some sorrow, or some excitement or something other than the perpetually too cool for words demeanor for which he is fast becoming legend.

Were that the case, our president would be batting a thousand with me.

But his presidency would be in deep trouble.

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