THE CALIBER OF A PRESIDENT.

Why is Obama's reelection bid such a big problem? Somebody or some people are scared to death that he will win a second term.

One will have to assume that there are so many of them, and they are so afraid that their whole lives will come to a sudden end, when that happens.

At the moment, they are throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, into the scathing attacks at him; like the Palestinian Statehood attempt, along with the Jewish vote; the Solyndra executives taking the fifth before Congress; the diabolical news that a Navy general is asked to change his deposition on an electronic target system to lawmakers; the high jobless rate in the African American community; ....and the list goes on and on. All are his fault.

Pretty soon, he will have to come out and say, "OK, OK, that's enough; I give up.", and the world will go back to being normal again for these people.

However, that is not going to happen in a million years, and they know it. So, each and every morning, some hired political strategists will come on and add some more scandal to the already vicious onslaught to make things look rather depressing than the previous day's for all of us.

One thing they forget to realize is that, this is the United States of America, the citadel of the world information highway; and the social culture demands that people are liable to check what they see and hear several times over, before they make a decision, either for or against.

Some say that they have to see whatever it is nineteen times, or hear it more than twenty-five times, and then they will decide to make it part of their lives; or chuck it out of their thinking processes completely, if they are overly inundated.

As for Obama's backers, they know that all that comes across the media is pure politics. They are watching his performance and comparing it with the persons that are set to challenge him for the presidency in 2012.

Presently, these persons are doing their damnedest to discredit him in every way possible; but none of these so called potential contenders comes close to being a real challenger. What they have so far heard from their paid political advisers is to keep on throwing more mud and somehow it will stick.

Americans have been watching him (Obama) doing his work as president, and how the opposition is trying so hard to make them (Americans) its captive audience, and continues to cast aspersion on the president, without proper evidence whatsoever.

They accuse him of making speeches, as if from a political soapbox; and they want his economic and work creation plans to be futile; but again, this is America, and he is very much aware that people will judge and back him up, if he does the right things, and does them in the best interest of the nation as a whole.

Through that his reelection will be assured, no matter what others may do or say.

Again, many people concur that his work is hard; but he can do it to the best of his ability, because he is not at all soft. That is the true caliber of a great president.