Stage Struck President

The Phantom of the Opera is one of the best, if not the best, show ever to hit Broadway. To prepare for this role of a lifetime, the lead actor spends two hours each day in makeup. And yet, the Phantom is only on stage for 40 minutes. That’s all. If you’ve ever seen the show you would have sworn that the Phantom appeared for more than 40 minutes of the two and half hour show. That is the mystic of the Phantom that even when he isn’t on stage you are still aware of him, his power, his feelings, his desires.

Obama needs to take a few lessons from the Phantom for this President seems to be on stage 24-7. He’s always delivering speeches, holding town hall meetings or giving in-depth interviews to the mainstream media. Every night we see him espousing on the crisis of the day. And his exposure isn’t limited to just here in the states. He’s already taken a number of trips where once again he can be found reading from that teleprompter as he apologizes for our behavior, talks about things he really doesn’t understand and telling other nations how to behave.

Unlike past Presidents, Obama seems unable to delegate tasks or speeches to the people working for him. OK, I can understand why he doesn’t want Biden talking for him but he has hired other experienced professional staffers. So why not let them do their jobs? Is he that insecure that he must constantly be in the limelight? Maybe, but I think it is also the sign of someone who has no experience as a manager. Obama has never run a business, oversaw staff, been required to meet a budget, produced a product or made a profit. A president needs to be able to do all of these things. Instead we have a man who is a politician/professor with no managerial experience at all. And if, like Reagan, you aren’t a manager then you need to delegate, which Reagan did, but which Obama seems incapable of doing.

Obama is a great politician and he probably was a good law professor but he is clueless when it comes to running a business, much less our country. A review of his first few months clearly shows that he has acted more like a professor or politician and not like the President of the US of A. For example, the most important aspect to being a good politician or professor is the ability to get money; the former from the public and the latter in grants (also ultimately from the public).Being a good politician/professor the first thing Obama has done is to grab money, lots and lots of money, with few strings attached. What happens with this money is secondary. Obama can’t be bothered with those details. He only knows how to reach out and take as much money as possible.

Another important part of being either a politician or a professor is to be published. And Obama has become a prolific author. Guess how many books Amazon.com shows have been released with Obama as the “author” since the first of the year? Would you believe there are ten books! This country is falling apart, people are hurting yet still Obama found time to produce nine books with a tenth due out in September. Even if it is compilation of his speeches or updating past books, this man is such a perfectionist, never speaking unless he has that teleprompter, he had to have had spent some time reviewing each of his ten books. But our president should be running the country, not writing books! The public should be outraged at this waste of presidential time when there are so many crisis and problems he should be concentrating on instead of books! This isn’t how a president should act!

It is rare to find either a politician or a professor who likes big business or even small business. They despise business managers and owners believing that they pollute the earth, abuse and exploit the little people who work for them and produce useless products. Professors and politicians are always for the little people, yet in private they jeer these workers with their guns and bibles and hold them in utter contempt. They despise the average Joe while at the same time show unending “love” for those who refuse to work and are dependent on the largess of the politician.

Obama is now trying to realize the dreams of every liberal politician and far left professor. He is trying to redistribute the wealth by going after the rich who don’t agree with him and handing their money to the idle poor who voted for him, while destroying the middle class who never have completely swallowed his kool ade. He is also systematically destroying business in America. He has taken over our car industry and our financial industry and is trying to take down energy businesses. Again like any politician or professor, Obama is now telling these industries what the end product should be but with no regard as to how to actually produce those products. Those details are beneath him and that’s what those business people should figure out. As for making a profit, well, business leaders have been too greedy in the past and don’t need to make profits.

The world is a scary place and we need a President not a politician/professor and definitely not a narcistic actor clamoring for more time on stage. The mystic of the Phantom is enhanced by the fact that he is seen in less than half the show. So President Obama needs to back off, to not have constant interviews, give endless speeches or even be seen going out on Saturday night dates. Obama keeps telling us he is President now it is about time he begins to act like one and not like a politician/professor or a stage struck actor. Otherwise we will find one who does.