De-nial.

“My goal here,” the president said, “is not to convince you that everything is where it needs to be. But what I am saying is that we are moving in the right direction.”

I don't know, Mr. President. Whoever's advising you here is not your friend.

Telling people -- good, honest people -- what they know in their hearts not to be true, is not how you push up your sleeves and begin to tackle the problems facing us, head on.

(Do you watch football, Mr. President? You've got to be playing like the hungriest pass rusher now. Defense. Forcing something to happen. Make that Change! ... )

You made promises, and for better or worse, people are holding you to them. Foreign policy, social issues, immigration -- people didn't just want soft shifts. We could have voted for a moderate Republican to slowly bring the ship around.

No matter how big the problem: you had 'em chanting "Yes We Can". Why are you suddenly afraid to try?

Another thing:
People didn't vote for you based on your promise of mandatory health insurance for all, either. Where in heavens name do you get that from? That was Hillary's platform; healthcare change you also mentioned, but only in assuring us you were Pro-Choice in letting people choose what was personally best for them.

The anti-vote is aroused by lines like: " “there are a whole host of things we’ve put in place to make your life better.” He cited his administration’s health care overhaul bill; a financial regulatory reform measure that imposes tougher requirements on credit card companies; and an education bill that makes student loans more widely available."

But not everyone is struggling to send a child to college, has an underwater mortgage, or has charged more than they can pay off each month. And these people, thanks to the domino effect, are hurting too. And it's not getting any better, it seems, unless you're either at rock bottom, or your family safely ensconced at the tippiest top.

You helped the biggies, who now think it's crisis over and back to old way of playing the game. There's no worse way to avoid change than to artificially mess with their free market day of reckoning. Put it off until sometime in the future, cause the game hasn't at all been changed. You rewarded the healthcare CEO's and and the hedge fund brokers, brought back their bonuses. While the country, like the workers' 401(k)s continue to decline...

You tell us, "what I am saying is that we are moving in the right direction."

If you don't understand by now that people feel what they feel, people measure what they measure and you can't talk them out of that, then why did you pretend you were for Real Change in the first place? I know you didn't think that the Real Change you were promising was just a black family in the White House. I know it.

What have you to lose? September 26 -- when the Israeli settlement expansion freeze is lifted, will you and Hillary lead there? Use our carrots, and threaten to bring home our Big Sticks if our allies don't find it in their best interest to work with us?

If it's just a PR issue to you -- is America anti-Muslim in the worldwide view, favoring Israel no matter what? -- isn't this one you could have had some effect on? Why are you so afraid to look strong, with America behind you, and end the idea that we're planting permanent military bases in the Middle East region to make the world safe for Israel?

If their economy is flourishing, while ours has tanked, shouldn't a true friend step up to take some of the burden off of our own "defense" budget? If you could make the case that America's defense has nothing to do with allowing Israeli settlers to secure Jerusalem, water access, and whatever land promised in their ancient titles, you could potentially save the country A LOT of money in fighting avoidable neverending wars over there.

Imagine -- if you had the money -- how you reinvest those "defense" resources here at home. We just don't have enough police and security jobs to put all those unemployed soldiers to work here at home in the "protection" industry. We need to build again. Here, at home. Invest in our own people -- train the young men in skills they can use other than in policing and survelliance. Building. Exercising. Disciplining.

That creates more work than you might think. Doesn't have to pay the most either, if it's healthy and fulfilling.

Demographically, the Boomers will be out of the workplace in another decade or two, naturally opening up the job market there. But look at all the problems -- obesity, woman and grandparent-headed homes, lack of practical life skills -- that our people could be bettered on today.

Not by forcing, but by rewarding the healthy and those willing to make small-c change to actively create Change. You know how they say, "There's not a lack of love in this world. There's a lack of places to put that love." (paraphrasing)

Well, there's not a lack of work out here. There's a lack of access to the funds that finance the work that need to be done. And quite frankly, due to their fatcat history, there's a great lack of trust in liberal government bureaucrats to properly administer and distribute those funds.

Whoever's advising you that touting the increase in this government class as a success (I'm sure the poor people who qualify think that, but you're not really campaigning for their votes.), and that we all win when people have less decision-making control themselves, is not doing you any favors.