Chicago Tribune Columnist Steve Chapman Wants Obama to Give Up

Why don't you just give up, President Obama, the Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman says in a recent, highly read column, because your second term will be tougher.

If the only shot the GOP candidates have at getting in the door again is President Barack Obama giving up, then the door is sealed shut for four more years. The Grand Old Party has not one viable candidate at this point who could win. They badger Chris Christie so much so, that he jokingly threatened suicide if they keep cajoling him into entering the presidential race.

Wow.

Four more years, Mr. Obama, is signed sealed and delivered to you. No one, nowhere in this country has a viable candidate willing to go through what you go through on a daily basis, thanks to your kept campaign promise of transparency. Race runners are all afraid of the yellow tape. They don't want to win, they want to run. It is they who want to sit on a beach and wrestle the cap off of a beer, (waited upon by Mr. Chapman?).

It is not unlike those who Obama described once as sitting outside of the vehicle that is our economy, watching the president try to get it --being the economy-- out of a ditch. No one has a plan for the economy that does not include sacrificing the less fortunate people at the bottom of the list and working poor.

President Obama is the only one still fighting for the American people, and now, thanks to his nationwide town halls on the American Jobs Act, everyone knows it. So tell me Mr. Chicago Trib Columnist, why should Obama give up when he has already won? If Obama loses, the American people will lose. If Obama loses his fight for the American Jobs Act, then people making $250,000 or more each year will get to keep tax breaks that add to the deficit. Isn't that is the real reason some media voices have turned against Obama?

The Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama in 2008 and continue to endorse the president's initiatives as they see fit. However, many media voices are quite often found in higher tax brackets and will be affected by potential tax break rollbacks. The media is a powerful voice and when its members speak against the president, is it because they don't want to give up any tax breaks or because they really do not support the American Jobs Act? Hidden agendas are a no-no but Chapman is a columnist and gets paid to write his opinion.

I guess the only voice the American people will hear is the greedy, uncompromising point of view. The American people used to have a representative voice within print media a long time ago. I guess we are once again voiceless. How sad for us all.