POLITICAL LEADERSHIP.

The Republican Party's presidential candidates focusing on President Barack Obama right now is wrong.

It is a strategy that will extend the bickering in Washington D.C. into the normal public life of ordinary citizens and bring about more political polarization or division in the country. It is bound to backfire, as their political campaigns continue to unfold.

The candidates are causing a distinct distraction from the economy, which needs to put more people to work to reduce the strain that unemployment is putting on everything that is required to push a clear agenda forward by the government, in order to make America's financial woes (to) subside.

At least, we have been made to believe that work availability, or a "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" plan is what the Obama bus tour is mainly about; to find ways to increase employment in administrative, agricultural and food services, as well as in manufacturing and other industrial areas, to boost the flagging economy.

In fact, it is to encourage all kinds of industries and businesses to adhere to making for a better advancement in the work force environment; to promote high employment and stabilize the present economic situation, and so quieten the financial markets at home and abroad.

It has been also accepted that America has the best workers, and it possessed more advanced and innovative ideas for home use and exports that could bring in more revenue to offset its debts to its main creditors, China and Japan, ten times over. Therefore, any delay to achieve financial success would be its own fault and nobody else's.

Presently, Romney and Perry are behaving like they have already won the nomination of their party; and they are reinforcing their rhetoric with attacks on high civil servants, such as the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose attention is to concentrate on official fiscal policies, in regard to stabilizing the dollar for future economic growth. However, his actions are being translated as being "almost treasonous" by Gov. Perry of Texas.

Or former Gov. Mitt Romney making his case on the lines of having more managerial experience than Obama. He can create jobs, just like that; which can be to his credit for his capacity of reviving the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and bringing them to a successful conclusion.

"As a businessman, Romney knows how and when to capitalize his assets,"; as claimed by an NNDB article (http://www.nndb.com/people/373/000044241/).

Surely, the whole thing happens to be true; but it sounds like boasting or showing off on his part, when he uses that to drum up support for his political goals. The idea is presentable; yet, the timing is not now.

The 2012 general election is more than a year away, and so, they have plenty of time to engage Obama, when the main campaign season heats up in the early part of 2012.

At the moment, they have the chance to analyze themselves, and be able to demonstrate their differences on why any of them is good enough and capable of getting the Republican Party's nomination, and as a prospective national leader.

They have both been governors before; but they cannot compare a governorship to being the president of The United States. The two positions are as different as night and day; and therefore, it will be naive on anybody's part to know what either Romney or Perry can do, if any of them is elected president.

The reality now is that they are asking the public to take them on their word; that they are successful in some areas in life, and as such they deserve to be given the opportunity to lead the country out of the economic morass that it (country) is in.

In other words, all they are really capable of doing is to present themselves in the political arena as men of vision and character, who are capable of preserving American values; and also their party's policies, aims, objectives and ambitions, which are directed to lead the whole country to a prosperous future.

That will be the right way to "sell" themselves from the start. Just attacking the present occupant of the White House and his trusted colleagues would rather be preposterous, to say the least.

The two, with the other contenders, are showing that the country needs leadership; so, let them be good examples of that in all its aspects.

Some of us already have Obama for a second term in 2012, and there is nothing anyone else can do about that.

P.S. Gov. Rick Perry is still the governor of Texas.