This is something that doesn't happen every day, so read and either talk me down, or gloat...

I love my Prez. I won't go into all the reasons. You either know already (I haven't been shy on the subject) or you can look back in my archives.

BUT, and this is a huge but, I'm getting frustrated with him. And Mr. President, if you would, respectfully, listen up...if I (make that 72 font, bold, italicized, and underlined!) am frustrated with you, you'd better pay attention, because it doesn't happen often, and if you are even in the beginning stages of losing me, you are in super big, mega huge trouble!

As labels go, if I had my druthers this would be a "liberal" country. We would be a hybrid of the best of capitalism, combined with a healthy dose of compassionate socialism. But I am pragmatic. I realize I don't get to decide for everyone. Neither does our President. He has to govern us all, and I have to live by whatever compromise can be worked out between all the people who care enough to vote, through the leaders that they care to elect.

I am predisposed to being willing to give him a chance to do his job. I understand the unique situation he inherited, and understood from the get go this mess would not be cleaned up overnight. So I have been patient. Much more patient than the majority around here seem to be. But my patience is wearing very, very thin.

Decision after decision make no sense to me. They appear to pander to the right or keep in place bush policies that I would have thought would be gone by now.

I'm willing to follow the President. I know he has more information than I do, and I am willing to go by faith, but only so far. After that, I need explanations. And I have arrived at that point.

If he wants me to continue to follow, he has some 'splainin' to do (to quote Ricky Ricardo!)

It is time for him to start getting out ahead of all these decisions that just don't sit well with the left. I don't want to hear about it from the spinmeisters on either side. I want to hear it from him.

I want him to explain to me why exemptions for anything having to do with off-shore drilling are being given, even if it is for things that don't directly impact on actual drilling. If ever there was a time for following the rules, you would think this would be it. He wants us to join him in adding regulations (which I do) but if we aren't enforcing the regulations we already have, what good will more do?

I want him to explain why his nomination to the SCOTUS is  a woman who sounds like she is all for expanding the powers of the executive branch when we have just lived through 8 years of egregious abuses of the powers it already has. He has plenty of time. To appoint anyone other than a card carrying liberal when we are losing a liberal and increasingly shifting the SCOTUS right, is beyond me. If he wants my support, he needs to explain it to me.

There are many other issues, these are just the two latest, but my point is, there have already been many instances, and there will be many more, when it appears that he doesn't give a fig what we on the left think. I think it is HIS  responsibility to preemptively tell us what he is going to do and why. Many, if not most of us, will stay on board if he can convince us of the virtue of his decision. He has the unique ability to rally the troops, but he fails time after time to get out and do it. Certainly he understands by now that Congress will not do much on its own.

So, if I may speak directly to you, Mr. President, If you want our support, you need to talk to us. You need to explain your decisions. We have gone on faith long enough. Make your case, and we'll continue to follow you. Ignore us, and you WILL be a one term President (as much as the thought of that makes me ill) and worse yet, you will have fed  all of us to the republican wolves. We expect and deserve better.

As much as I despise "Obama is bad" from both right and left 24/frickin'/7, sometimes he brings this on himself, and it is wearing me out.