Never a Wrong Time

It appears as though the Obama Administration is getting serious about financial reform. Well it is said that timing is everything. Perhaps Obama and his advisors are beginning to understand this.

Or to put it another way maybe they are realizing that if they do not do something soon, losing the mid-term elections just might be the least of their worries.

Many of us are losing faith, not just in politics, but in our present form of government. We wonder if we even have a true democracy anymore.

Is our form of government just a sham to allow the wealthy and powerful to maintain control and prosper at the expense of the common people?

Is nothing being done because greedy self-interests dominate all the way to the top?

Has our culture succumbed to debased values of self importance, narcissism and personal gratification?

Have we lost all ideals of honesty, fairness, equality and equal opportunity?

Are we reverting to a lower form of society where it is every man for himself or is our society and civilization going to advance?

Is it the beginning of the end or is it a new beginning?

This is honestly Obama’s crossroads. This is Obama’s defining moment.

He can attempt to keep his big money campaign contributors on Wall Street happy while appeasing the masses with his “charm”, or he can do the right thing, take the bull by the horns and restore confidence and trust in America’s institutions.

Seriously, if the Obama Administration is about Lincoln, not Mao, what better time is there to invoke the philosophy of the Gettysburg Address: “…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Are we a nation controlled by aristocrats or are we a nation of, by and for the people?

Where are Obama’s roots? Who does he really identify with?

Does he represent the people – all of people of this world – who want a better life as is his personal heritage?

Or does he represent his “new found friends” – the limousine liberal ideologues? The elitist class members who have never spent a minute in the real world. Who have no clue what it is like living from paycheck to paycheck. People who have insulated and isolated themselves from the working class but who profess to possess full and complete knowledge on how, where and even why they should live.

People who are self appointed to impose grand ideals on others but only so long as they personally are unaffected and can continue to live selfish, lavish, gilded and hypocritical lifestyles.

Obama, there is never a wrong time to do the right thing. Now is the time.