Charles Weller

Who?

Charles Weller is credited in some circles for having first used the sentence, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party."

He devised it to help people learn to use a typewriter (a what...?)  Others said "...their country" and that's the version I'm going to use now.

And I want to direct it at our new president, Barack Obama,  Actually he won't officially be our new president until the 20th but bear with me.

Now is the time for President Obama to stop fooling around with politics and come to the aid of the American people by making some brave, hard choices.

Taxes, the environment, the wars and, Godforbid, gun control.

If President Obama has any guts and/or conscience, he'll forget about whether or not his decisions are popular, or even if they will effect the midterms in 2014.

He'll choose what's good for these United States.  Not the gun lobby, or Big Oil or Martin Marietta or Wall Street.

He'll think of Joe and Jane M. America ("M" for Middle Class) and make policy based on sanity and logic and the future rather than what will be good for his legacy or library or benefactors.

This country is in the soup and the only way out is to take the bull by the horns and actually DO the things that most Americans really want.

Most Americans really want competitive schools that provide top notch education in a safe and healthy environment.

Most Americans want to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat clean food.

Most Americans want their children to come home from Afghanistan and Iraq and everywhere else on the globe where they are at risk simply for wearing a uniform that sports the American Flag.

Most Americans want reasonably priced energy that doesn't pollute the air, land and/or sea.

Most Americans want to get what they pay for in government services rather than paying a fortune and getting nothing but the wrapper.

Most Americans want to pursue happiness without fear.

Most Americans want an America that is, once again, respected and loved the world over for the good that it does rather than hatred for the trouble it stirs up.

Come on Barack!  Step up.  Have some courage.  Forget the polls and the historians.  Do what's right!

If not for us then for Malia and Malika.  After all, they're Americans too.