Dear Mr. Reich. First, let me tell you that for years I have enjoy and agreed with your political opinions, keep the good work.

About Obama, although I voted for him, I had no illusions about his promises, that fact that he turned out to be a wolf in “black” sheep clothes is no surprise. I had hopes for him to be different, but thought he was to slick to be believable. The man has chosen to joint the old ban wagon, and is too comfortable traveling with them. We just have to wait until the next elections. No amount of emails will make Mr. Obama risk the support of his new “old” friends, the people be dam.

Buy guns and ammo.

Buy survival items.

Buy gold.

Do not buy anything from Lib-nazi supporters.

Do not do business with Democrats or Democrat supporters.

Buy from ebay & craigslist to avoid taxes.

Use encryption to escape detection by the Napolitano Gestapo.

Shut off the TV,cancel newspapers & magazines.

Support freedom fighters and pro-Constitution revolutionaries.

How do you think the Right got into power anyway?

Organize, elect people, raise hell when they don't do what you want, and organize again ... for THIRTY YEARS!

But of course if you'd all rather whine than write your congressmen, don't come crying to me when things don't work out as you plan....

One of my most amusing moments came when Mr Reich asked a Congressional Committee: Do I look like big business?

On the matter of forcing the President to do the right thing, the regrettable reality we have learned is that Mr Obama is a brilliant, lyrical, smooth and charming gentleman, replete with the best of intentions and the most minimal capacity for management and leadership. I do have a major bias about how he has been catering to a bunch of dictatorial outfits like the Saudis and their buddies while putting the screws the Israelies who saved tons of lives in 1981 when they put Hussein's nuclear stuff out of operation...and caught hell for that too.

So, Professor Reich, it is difficult to know just how to make a fine man like the President do the "right thing" when he is trying to be the cobbler of everything at the same time. Where for example is the Secretary of State? Why is the President deploying people who should at least be seen as assigned by Hillary? Why has he failed to appoint literally hundreds of key sub cabinet officials so the various departments can get on with their work?

These are only a couple of concerns. Perhaps you can raise the sound a little to get his attention so he can share the spotlight a little and maybe even allow us to understand why he is so quick to cater to people who operate countries that are anti-democratic.

@Natty_J

So, who do you think is better than Obama seeing that you think I have been 'kidding you'? John McCain?

Yeah, you should keep waiting for something better. I just hope you don't completely let this country fall into the crapper in the time being. But what do you care? Reich says you need to work a bit harder for change and you can't tear yourself away from complaining at your computer.

Next step...go sit in front of the TV.

You are engaging in text book straw man tactics. I have never supported McCain; after his selection of SP, I was quite relieved that he lost.

As it happens, the examples of more experienced leaders I proposed were Hillary Clinton and (hypothetically) Warren Buffett. The fact that Obama might be better than Bush or McCain is not relevant to THIS discussion, nor is it a sufficient achievement, IMO.

Don't lash out at those who point out Obama's mix of ineptitude and self-promotion above all else. It is churlish messanger blaming. Your boy's being schooled: by Sarko, by China, by Ahmadinejad, by Congress, by the Insurance lobby, etc. It sucks, but it is not b/c I am insufficiently engaged in politics.

In response to your personal remarks, I will point out that I am not complaining about either the success or failure of HC "reform." If you care to review, my prior posts are detailed, but the bottom line is that I don't care WHAT the solution is, but let's drop the mendacity. Finally, I can assure you that whatever problems I may experience are not related to watching the TV, which I find even more tedious than disingenuous health care talking points from a washed up former Sec of Labor.

He won't be listening. Perhaps you've never recovered from that 60's encounter with Bill Clinton. Or the 60's, period. Many people haven't. Obama knew that and co-opted Grateful Deaders such as yourself with visions of RFK and MLK and Vitamin K or whatever it took to con the lot of you. The public has to force him? What makes you think the public is interested in the first place and that they know what the right thing is in the second place and that Obama would listen or know himself? It's like saying force your teenager to be responsible and don't do drugs, etc. They will or they won't, teenagers and presidents, or in our case the president with the teenagers' self-obsession. I really don't know what public you're talking about, the Berkeley, California coalition for Utopia now? Help Obama? God help us all.

How about everybody sending him two balls of some kind to let him know we'd like to see him grow a pair?

I write many letters every single week which includes President Obama. I disagree with his vision for my country. As far as I know, that is still allowed in this country unless we plan to defer to the state of Iran and their tactics to shut people up.

Half the people in this country do not agree with a progressive approach to government. It has been tried back in the FDR days and frankly many steps taken then have proven to be good in theory, but sadly poorly managed all these years. A good example is SS. It is a socialist program that meant well but has been underfunded from the beginning. My mother-in-law back in 1970, started to collect SS benefits. The only problem was she never paid into the system because she did not work outside the home. She collected half of what her husband got in full benefits. See..good intentions, bad fiscal policy.

When AIG was bailed out by the taxpayer, that company then got a leg up compared to their competitors. The field was no longer level. The other competitors didn't come running to us to bail them out and yet they came up short since they didn't have access to large sums of money to garner more market share.

The bail out of GM and Chrysler is another blunder. Ford didn't ask us for money and yet they are not expected to compete against two competitors that have been bailed out and have gotten every helping hand available. What a stink bomb that is.

We are rewarding those that ruined their companies due to greed and stupidity and barely even noticing those that have managed well during the rough seas. How utterly socialistic of us.

Now there is talk about another stimulus plan and yet the first stimulus monies according to Czar Biden has barely been spent. Which is it? Why at this point are we thinking about more debt when we haven't even begun to drain the other pool?

PPIP? Failure. Stimulus? Failure so far. I would argue that putting in a turtle tunnel, re-doing a boardwalk in Biden's state when the money was already privately raised, is NOT creating jobs as was intended.

Listen, I give Obama an A for effort. It just happens to be that I disagree with his policies. What I would fault him greatly on is his follow-through. It is like he makes the contact, puts together the bill rather loosely, and then strolls off to the next issue without even knowing what has been written in any of the bills being voted on. There is absolutely no excuse for any bill to be voted on without reading the contents. How can Obama say he is proud of the passage of any of those bills when nobody voting read the contents? Does anybody sign any documents without reading the fine print? I don't.