Mr. President, Tell it Like it Is!

The President addressed the nation tonight, and it was probably his best teleprompter delivery. He was much more animated and realistic as he spoke into the camera than he normally is. Personally, I'd prefer that he address the nation in front of a crowd, because that's when he's at his best, but it's tradition.

He made a good case for staying the course in Iraq. This is basically the same thing he usually says. He was a little tougher on the dems than normal, but barely. As is too often the case lately, the speech left me wanting more.

I'd love to hear a real barn-burner. I'd love to see the President completely dispense with the polite respect he's always shown the democrats. They regularly call him Hitler, a murderer, a traitor, a deserter, AWOL, you name it. The worst name he ever calls them is "politician." Not that I want him to descend to the left's 3rd grade name-calling tactics. But I like to hear a spade called a spade. Remember when Dick Cheney said, "The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone -- but we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history?" That's what I want to hear. Not from a surrogate. Not from someone who's been cleared to use rhetoric. I want my President to tell it like it is!

It is so frustratingly and blindingly obvious that the Democrats clearly have their own political interests ahead of national security. Please, Mr. President, bluntly point this out to the nation.

After 9/11 the dems held up key legislation because union bosses who fill liberals' campaign coffers wanted to make it harder to fire lazy security workers. Tell it like it is!

Now they refuse to renew key parts of the Patriot Act because they are worried about the government having access to potential terrorists' library book records. Tell it like it is!

John Murtha, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and a great many others call for us to cut and run because we can't win. Mr. President, you know the only reason they call for the to come back is to put up a good show for thier liberal Hollywood donors and to make you look bad. If a Democrat was in office, they'd be singing the troops' praises right along with the liberal media. Tell it like it is!

On a related note, please take the muzzle off the military. When reporters ask the soldiers questions, let them respond to what they see back home. I know the liberal media will hunt high and low to find the disillusioned soldiers, but they are going to have to ignore a lot of comments to find soldiers who aren't disgusted with the democrats and the media. Let them tell it like it is!

Liberals are screaming bloody murder over secret intercepts of international phone calls. Mr. President, I'd like to know why exactly they are so eager to protect individuals who are calling terrorists. Tell it like it is!

All this politeness and letting the liberals make up whatever reality they want and present it to the American people unfiltered has harmed our nation. People who should know better because their President told them so are starting to believe the defeatists. Look at the polls! The public is steadily being brainwashed. And look at what your Republican colleagues in the Senate are doing. They've completely lost their resolve. They need a strong leader to bolster their morale (and kick them in the pants!)

If you don't lose the kid gloves, this actually could turn into another Vietnam--a war we lost without losing a single major battle except the political one at home. It's not enough to tell us we're winning and leave it up to the public to ignore all the negatives constantly pouring out of their TV screens. You've got to give us the goods. Tell it like it is! And the sooner the better.