Barack Obama was talking about the importance of caring for the mental and emotional health of our military men and women. He was clearly focusing on the movement of hope, and the much needed change only HE can bring when HE is The President of The United States Of America.

Oh, and speaking of "changing politics as usual"....

Since being the brain-child of the importance and need for treating the mental and emotional health of our Military Servicemen and Servicewomen (just as universal health care insurance,.... was his idea), Barack Obama took the opportunity to also address:

-HIS patriotism;

by citing HIS family's past military service,

-mental and emotional trauma from war; by

citing one of HIS family member's military experience,

-Jewish interest/voters; by citing a "family story" about a concentration camp where HIS family member was part of liberating Jewish people.

Barack Obama simply spoke as THE Authourity he is on whatever topic he speaks of.

This time,to support his expertise, he included an uncle and the name of a concentration camp. Exactness, nor the question of sincerity or mistakes are important. What is impotant is how transparent it is that as long as Barack Obama behaves and speaks with authority, then he is perceived as being presidential.

Barack Obama seems to always portray himself as the authority on every topic.

After all, it was Barack Obama who said:

-This is not a race about 'race'.

-There is not a white America or a black America.

-He will bring unity

....when HE is The President Of The United States Of America.

Unfortunately, Barack missed an opportunity to evidence his sincerity and ability to unify America when Geraldine Ferraro spoke about how and why she was the vice-presidential nominee simply because of the times (the 60's woman's liberation) and her gender,and compared Baracks' doing as well as he was; because of where we/America are/is now, with regard to race....

Instead of agreeing with her and expressing his experience of being multi-racial, and his experiece of being a black person, and how times have changed in a positive way,.....

Barack Obama and his campaign cried "racism".

Another opportunity Barack missed to evidence his sincerity and ability to unify, was when questioned about his close association with his pastor of 20 years and the pastor's controversial words (who Barack wrote about and spoke about). Rather that admitting that he did not agree with all of his pastor's thoughts, and that perhaps he had tried to help his pastor to understand that speaking so anti-American and anti-Caucasian was old thinking and inappropriate by today's standards....Barack denied having ever heard his pastor speak like the "snippets" the media was airing over and over.

Then Barack conveniently gave his famous "race" speech in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, Barack justified his pastor's way of thinking, and minimized it as well; noting the resentment that both white and black Americans have. Barack then subtley included Geraldine Ferraro's comment as racist, along with his white grandmother's racist words about the black men on the street. Perhaps Barack should have taken that opportunity to say that his white grandmother not only had confused and apprehensive and racial prejudice toward black people because of old ways of bad thinking, but also because her only daughter when seventeen or eighteen years old fell in love with, got pregnant, married and was then abandoned by a black African man. It would not have justified his white grandmother's racism. No. It might have however, explained his white grandmother's resentment.

(I found it interesting that the speech was televised in it's entirety without interruption, as though it was The President's State of the Union Speech.)

After that speech, the media buzz was that the topic of race could finally be discussed, because Barack Obama spoke of it. Some even compared that speech to Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (?)

Was Barack Obama simply being presidential?

As for mentioning the word assasination, it is not only politically incorrect, nor is it important to undertand the context if mentioned, but because Barack Obama has secret servicemen, Hillary Clinton is questioned about her intention of it's use. (?)

So far, that's only three (3) times (that I'm noting) when Barack Obama and his campaign have complained about racism.

When President George W. Bush spoke in Israel at the 60th anniversary celebration of the creation of the State of Israel and the end of the Holocaust, Barack Obama took liberty by making our President's speech about himself, and challenged the President as though there was a back-alley fight.

How arrogant and disrespectful to the Office of the President, and how insulting and minimizing to the People of Israel.

Again, Barack was simply being presidential.

Speaking of speeches (and Barack Obama does speak quite infatically while being motivational and idealistic; all the while seeming so promisingly presidential), I didn't understand his choice of the following snippets of the famous speeches, and the order of them he quoted:

"I have a dream. All men are created equal. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

Again, guess Barack was simply being presidential.

Well, I guess when Barck Obama told HIS family story about HIS uncle who went into the attic and didn't leave the house for six months after being one of the first to be part of the liberation of a Holocaust camp; not knowing it was his great uncle and not knowing the the correct name and country of the concentration camp is not important.

What qualifications are necessary for being the President of our Nation?

- Present existing ideas as your own

- Promise that only you will bring needed change

- Promise transparency

- Promise Unity

- Always draw attention to yourself

- Never give specific information on how you will accomplish your promises

-Regardless of the topic,speak as The authority and simply be presidential