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Mr. President, I hate to say “I told you so,” but prophetically speaking, I repeatedly told you in my article “President Obama Is Smart, but Is He Wise?” that if you didn’t get some wisdom from God and recognize the invisible hand of God in the affairs of men, you were going to see the dismantling of your presidency, piece by piece. Well, sir, here we are, after many warnings and signs by God Himself (namely, the Gulf Oil Spill, the volcanoes that disrupted business in America and Europe, and the tragic unemployment rate), even after all you have done, you and your party have just received the worst midterm election repudiation of any president and his policies in modern history. Many people are also saying that you are certainly a one-term president, and that you will go down in history as a worse president than Jimmy Carter. And guess what, Mr. President, you and none of your staff can blame it on racism – and you better not try.
Mr. President, if you want to salvage your presidency and have a chance at getting re-elected in 2012, I strongly suggest you listen to me this time around. Here is what you must do:
1. You, your wife, and your staff need to pray together each morning for yourselves, for God’s wisdom, and for this country.
2. You need to get rid of your liberal pastor friends and replace them with Bible-based pastors and church leaders such as Tony Evans, Franklin Graham, David Jeremiah, T.D. Jakes, and Lon Solomon, who happens to be right there in Washington, DC with you. These preachers will honestly tell you what the Word of God says regarding the spiritual, moral, and social issues that we face in this country.
3. If you feel as though going to a local church is too much of a hassle, there are many ways you and your family can worship together nowadays. For example, Lon Solomon’s church, McLean Bible Church, which is near you, has an internet campus. You can gather your family and friends together in the residential portion of the White House, which will not violate the principle of separation of church and state, for an informal live church service with Pastor Lon Solomon and the McLean Bible Church. This is a very popular church in your area that has been and is home to many great political leaders. Plus, Lon Solomon has been invited to the White House many times before to speak with presidents, so they will not be in awe of you being a member. And anytime you need for him to come and minister to you personally, he will be glad to come. If you want a more black church experience for your family, T.D. Jakes has a similar live internet campus church service each Sunday.
4. Make peace with your former pastor and church, and apologize for any failures on your part in dealing with the situation over two years ago. For political reasons, you probably should not rejoin the church, but see if your former pastor and the current new pastor, Dr. Otis Moss III, might have a “word” for you, and see if they would give you their full blessings, lay hands on you, and pray over you. (And, by the way, please do not refer to the current pastor of Trinity United Church as a “young minister” again. That is disrespectful. Also, in case you forgot, you are a young man yourself). This will take humility on your part, but God will bless you for it. The situation with your former pastor and church home just did not end properly, and I believe this will haunt you until you make sure this is taken care of right. Because even though you and other people may have differences with Dr. Wright, he was your pastor for twenty years, and quite frankly, he is the only father figure that you know, and he can probably speak to your soul like nobody else can.
5. Through video conferencing, meet with, at least seven conservative, Bible-based pastors each Monday morning, and seek wisdom and advice regarding spiritual, moral and social issues and decisions. This is an area that you have messed up royally. The Bible says in Proverbs 11:14, “in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.” If you want to meet with your liberal pastor friends, continue to do so, but I think you need to also definitely hear from your more conservative, Bible-based ministers on a regular basis as well.
6. Make a decision to fight for the following things, but let everything else go. And you should fight for these things only if they are core convictions that you hold, so that you won’t appear to be spineless, wishy-washy, and a person who does not have principles:
- Health care reform
- Banking and finance reform
- Education reform
- Solving the unemployment crisis
- Protecting America from another terror attack and concluding the war in Afghanistan responsibly
If you don’t at least fight for these things, you will appear to be a wishy-washy president. Reagan only stood for a few big principles, and people remember him as a great president.
7. Drop the following issues like hot potatoes:
- Trying to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- Being favorable to homosexual rights and homosexual marriage
- Supporting and funding abortion in any way, shape, form, or fashion
- Trying to raise taxes on the rich
If you continue to fight for these issues, the majority of the people in America will continue to forsake you. And, as you have seen in this election cycle, even though you have done more than any previous president for the homosexual community, they are still not satisfied with you and they have lost all respect for you as well. Obviously, you do not know this, but the more you try to appease the homosexual community, the more they are going to demand.
8. Take care of your base, but move to the center-right especially on social and moral issues. As Bill Clinton did after the midterm elections of 1994, when Republicans took back Congress, he was “able to mount a political comeback by abandoning his ambitious liberal goals”, as Philip Klein wrote in The American Spectator. Mr. President, in a democracy, you are placed in that position to serve the people, and if the people do not want something, you can’t do it. They have shown you what they don’t want, so don’t keep trying to do it.
9. Write another book delineating your ideas and vision for the future. This book should be an honest, open discussion of your true political views and goals for moving America forward in a positive direction. This will help the American people to regain confidence in your plans and vision for the future, if they line up with what the majority of the American people want.
10. Stop all unnecessary government spending. Here are some practical ideas:
- Ask all people to sacrifice and voluntarily give to their country by buying bonds, or through a voluntary tax to help pay down America’s debt.
- Focus like a laser beam on putting all unemployed people back to work by any means necessary.
- Consider raising minimum wage. By doing this, you will help to reduce the number of people who depend on government assistance and food stamps.
- Move the government towards paperless operations. Much of what the government does can be managed securely online (for example, government paychecks, medical records, tax forms., etc).
- Absolutely refuse to borrow anymore money from China. If the government does not have the money to pay for something, then the government should wait until it gets the money it needs.
In closing, Mr. President, the next two years could be the best years of your presidency, or you can do what you normally do, which is, become bitter, thin-skinned, touchy, and vindictive. You need to get a tougher hide and stop thinking that you are God’s gift to this country. Newsflash: You are not. You are just a man who is gifted by God, and who has voluntarily chosen to serve a people called Americans. Mr. President, my make up is such that I thrive off of opposition and off of people trying to stop me from doing something. I use opposition as jet fuel to accomplish great things that I probably would not accomplish if everyone who is against me was for me, patted me on the back, and told me how great I was. Mr. President, I suggest you find some of that “yes we can” spirit from somewhere and you will have a great two years and will probably win re-election in 2012.
P.S. Mr. President, if you don’t do what I have just encouraged you to do, I assure you that you will be a one-term president, you will be beaten by a landslide in 2012, and you will be seen, if not the worst president in history, certainly worse than Jimmy Carter. Mr. President, none of your friends are going to tell you this, but I have to tell you this because I love you and your family and I want to see you succeed as the first black president of the United States of America.
And just in case you have forgotten my previous warnings and advice, please read my article “President Obama is Smart, but is he Wise?” here.
