GOOD SHOW, Mr. PRESIDENT.

America could not have had a younger president, who spoke with so much conviction that it was his prayer that the nation could come together to solve its problems, just as a tenacious family would do, so that there would be no deep seated animosity among its members.

President Barack Obama showed that spirit in his weekly radio address, (which was also teleivized) without making himself look like a demagogue peering down from on high at those below him. He came down to earth and became as one belonging to a common family living anywhere in the United States and sharing his life with those around him at a thanksgiving dinner table.

He seemed to be saying, "if we were to drop the things that put wedges between us, together we could do what we were supposed to be doing; and that was to help each other,"

He was speaking, primarily, to lawmakers, but he also meant everyone in the country to get the message.

To him, probably, togetherness was lacking in Washington D.C., and that has caused so much aggravation to the whole nation in the past few months, in addressing the issues that were the underlying factors of America's standard of living.

They were, 1. a strong economy, 2. less unemployment and 3, fiscal freedom, which must be on the minds of all members of the U.S. Congress; and that opposing the correction in any of them by the use ideology created "gridlocks" and elements that curtailed a nation's progress to prosperity. There must be one (prosperity), not just for a lucky few, but for all individuals, rich or poor.

In a jocular way, while pardoning the two turkeys, on the same day, but in a different setting, he wanted his audience to take him seriously, that the act of pardon should not be done in a meaningless fashion. It must be performed honorably, with character and dignity.

Back to his speech, he was casting his eyes out to see what was going on around him, with the soldiers in the field fighting to protect US, and also what their families were going through.

Dad was missing at the tablehead, and Mom was not in the kitchen. So, if it was not for the family, of aunts and cousins, and the care of neighbors and friends, etc., what would the children do? They would be sucking their fingers all day, with no nourishment coming to them from that.

He was urging Americans to build strong bonds and vital relationships, which were the tenets of an enlightened society, so that each member would see what the other was experiencing, rather than to be isolationists and selfish people.

A family that shared common ideals, made for a united community, where all considered the safety of themselves and of their fellow citizens to be paramount.

The division in the erstwhile Super Committee did not bade well for the country, as it was the sequel of another failure to improve the state of the sagging economy that it (country) was facing; instead, it pulled back the little advancement that has been made.

In another light, he saw his job, and not excepting those of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, as a struggle to find solutions, when he said, “The problems we face didn’t develop overnight, and we won’t solve them overnight.” Here too, the emphasis was on "WE".

He was speaking to unite the country on a onerous Thanksgiving Day, and to remove the differences people carry that were also hindrances; for they could adversely affect us all, one way or another.