charisma[kuh-riz-muh]
1. Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
2. a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people.
3. the special virtue of an office, function, position, etc., that confers or is thought to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability for leadership, worthiness of veneration, or the like.I’m a very open-minded person, so I’m interested in hearing various viewpoints. I may not agree and I may get frustrated at the opinions of others. Nonetheless, I listen to them…
With that being said, I have watched a couple of the Republican debates. Though I’ve missed most of them, I have refreshed myself after just about every one of them with recaps of the events from the night before amongst the GOP. I was not impressed by any of them.
All that I saw was a slew of candidates with some pretty harsh attacks toward one another who couldn’t agree on much of anything except for this clear intent: "Obama" needs to be out of the White House. They represented a divided party, and as potential candidates have dropped out, they haven’t even been unanimously endorsing the same sole candidate. (Huntsman endorses Romney, Perry endorses Gingrich, Cain endorses...uh..."the people")
Bottom line, when I look at the potential Republican nominees, I see nothing but wealthy candidates who seek POWER and a “title” with hardly any concrete plans for the country and little to no ability to relate to the average American at all. They pretty much just stand for “getting Obama out.” Do we know anything else about these candidates? I mean, personally, what do we know about them outside of their record on politics, their religious beliefs and their families. Do we know who they are as real people? Do they even know who they, themselves, are? Artificial is all I see.
President Obama is like no other candidate I’ve seen or witnessed in my lifetime or have read about in my history books. We know him, or at least we feel like we do. That, my friends is a very comforting quality. As a product of multiracial parents, he represents the “Melting Pot” we call America, meaning he can relate to so many of us. He also has experience working with real people…real Americans, not just being someone’s wealthy boss and “firing” people (as one of the GOP mentioned he liked having the ability to do).
Every time he expresses his opinion or shows his humorous/outgoing side… (the real him), he is criticized by “haters” and naysayers who blame him solely for them not having a job and the country’s current economic state. “He’s not funny.” “He should be creating jobs, not telling jokes.” When I read these types of comments, they make me shake my head and they irritate me….which is why I try my very best to not read them under articles and posts. However, like I said, I force myself to hear and read the opinions of everyone anyway.
He’s probably the “realest” candidate this country has ever seen, and he’s human. I guess POLITICS and only things involving POLITICS should be the only words that ever come out of his mouth, huh?
Give the guy a break. (People would even have a negative comment about that sentence)He does his job, he compromises and still stands his ground, all while giving us a piece of who he really is. I can’t say America has ever seen that, and I hope that we will continue to for the next 4 years.
I know this is long, and there are probably things I should have said and didn't but I'll end it here.
