"SMART ALECKS" IN AMERICAN POLITICS.

Many people are fed up with the confusion that some "smart alecks" want to bring into the political campaign for next year's presidential election.

They will not wait a single minute to draw attention to the "President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner date differentials", with respect to whether he, Obama, can deliver his speech on job creation to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on the same night as the Republican Party's organized debate at the Reagan Library.

There happens to be many different versions of the story that has led to the snafu.

However, the White House version seemed to be more reasonable than the others; that an approach has been made to the Speaker for the president to speak on the same night as the debate. There was a span of time for about an hour without a response, and that lulled the White House into believing that there was an agreement.

Then all of a sudden a letter came from the Speaker's office to say that the date for the debate could not be changed. It was scheduled for Wednesday, 7th September, and therefore it could not be postponed (paraphrased).

The White House then pondered it and decided to switch the president's speech to the following day, Thursday, 8th September.

So, what was all the fuss about? Should the president have insisted on giving his speech no matter what anyone said?

Yet, not long ago, there have been volatile debates on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction, whose agreement to save the country from defaulting on its debt payments came too late, to the detriment of all concerned.

For example, the U.S. credit rating was downgraded, for one; and as a result, its economy was drastically affected, causing world financial markets to be disrupted. There were other setbacks for the country, which were too numerous to recall.

The whole country was on edge, and asking for a compromise between the Obama administration and the Republican Party members in Congress during those debates, before something bad should happen.

However, now that the president has agreed to move his date, those people were phrasing his action as backing down, "when Boehner balked," and "Overnight, President Obama acceded to Republican dmands,", among other similar statements.

Many people would agree that there was no actual argument between the two sides, as both were willing to compromise; and that there only happened to be a minor breakdown in communications that has caused the incident.

Must that be a contentious moment for the whole nation to worry about, instead of concentrating on an issue as important as job creation, which the president was going forward with, for the economy to get better?

The country did not need political campaign "frolics", to distract it from the idea that its economy in the dumps and it must be straightened out for it to become better and stronger for the good of all.

Both the two people, President Obama and Speaker Boehner, were real gentlemen; and they would not miss an opportunity to reach a compromise, when the occasion demanded it; and so they did, and that should be the end of the story.

Presently, what Washington D.C. needs is a compromise in a whole lot of cases to get things done, rather than gridlocks.