Hello to the folks running the White House:
As you sit back and watch how the Republicans are running circles around you guys on the health care issue, it must strike some of you as something that seems out of place. If you take into account the wide majority that the Democrats hold in the House, then look at the Senate with a filibuster breaking 60 votes, you would think that these issues would be a breeze to get past.

Well, how come that isn't the case? It comes down to a simple fact of life that you folks running the White House haven't come to terms with yet. What you have here is a case of Mr. Obama having some very good educational credentials (book smarts) but very little political skills (street smarts).

Since Mr. Obama has taken office, he seemed to be starting off on the right foot, but as time has passed, his lack of political skills are starting to show like white socks on at a formal affair.  What is going to happen if this isn't dealt with immediately? What is going to happen in the long run?

The message coming from you all who advise Mr. Obama should be to start acting like a President that had a 60% + approval rating instead of like a kid asking for a dime on the street corner.  You may not see this from where you are at, but American's are the type that like a strong hand at the helm, even when they aren't too sure that the course being taken is the right one.

You can look back at Bush & Co. to see that the public, even though they didn't like him by the end still didn't outright despise him because in his dopey, quarky and dimwitted way he still stuck to his guns and made some people feel that he was in charge.

Mr. Obama is going to be single term President at the rate he is going, not because he isn't a good man, but because he isn't standing out as a good President.  He needs to lobby the Representatives and Senators DIRECTLY that are holding up his agenda.  He needs to be seen as taking this issue by the horns and wrestling it under his control by the public, no matter how many town halls are disrupted by the health care lobbyists.

He needs to show us that he is a leader, not just a negotiator.

And it's up to you folks that run the White House and advise the President to start telling him so.