Either he Will or he Won't--A Failed Obama Presidency all before April, 2009

On May 8th, 1933, President Roosevelt signed the TVA Act. With the swish of his pen, the Tennessee Valley was put on the modern map and lives would change virtually over night. Over the course of the ensuing decades, modernity would stick its toes into the river valley and bring, hints of prosperity to the region.

For all intents and purposes, the TVA Act and other such broad and sweeping acts and programs put into place in American during the New Deal proved successful. Of course, a timely world war also prodded the US economy into world leadership; but, nevertheless, the progressive mood of the FDR Administration and his coterie social liberals like Harry Hopkins and Elenanor Roosevelt (and many others) proved to be the medecine that an American lined with capitalist greed needed to lift our nation to greatness.

Well, if not greatness, then at least potential greatness--greatness was on the horizon. The mood of sacrifice prevailed during the war years and then was quiantly set aside in the half-century that followed and culminated in the Bush-Cheney abuse of power.

The day has come to again call forth with the help of a ouija board the souls and spirits of the progressive 30's. Having coalesced around a dynamic and tireless leader in the face of the handicapped FDR, America strode forward boldly and succeeded in remaking our society--America became a friendlier and more responsible society.

Threatened by world domination, the "greatest generation" again was called and it went forth to accomplish feats of personal sacrifice rarely seen in modern society and the great Nazi nemisis was defeated. Peace, a good peace, was achieved and the peoples of Western Europe--except for many of the French including many of the Normans--to this day express gratitude in annual celebrations of their independence from the Nazi occupation.

We are today occupied not by racist murderers but rather our insatiable diets, our need for having everything in big, energy consuming shapes and sizes. This addiction to consumption, as is well known, is destroying our world. America, and only America, can do something about this on the scale that will matter.

President Obama has tapped into the vast resources of the American people. They look to him for change and it would seem, they too are willing to change. Wheras the Europeans States tend to be selfish and obsessed with their own interests; whereas Russia is simply irrelevant when it comes to doing anything good for anyone including it own people; whereas the other players are also from BRIC nations and little or nothing can be expected from them in altering the world's march toward armageddon. It is up to President Obama to put forth legislation for a new "TVA Act."

President Obama should appoint Al Gore as the Global Warming Czar. This position should be an "extra-cabinet" position in that it will not be tied to the infighting and bureaucracy that exists between other cabinet members. President Obama must give Mr. Gore the power to make change and the change must be radical. The investment must be substantial and the sacrifice all Americans will be asked to make should be on par with that which was experienced by most Americans during WWII.

A real, top-down drive for altering the effects of global warming will create millions of jobs. A government requirement for receipt of funding for private business initiatives should require that all jobs stay in the US. There cannot be the destructive race for ever-increasing bottom-lines at the expense of the American worker. The new, massive TVA Act will tap into America's greatest resources: brain power, entreprenuership, hard-work and the messianic belief that our country was created to make the world a better place for all to live in.

President Obama has until April or May to make a committment to this initiative. If he kicks it around until the summer, it will simply be too late and nothing will happen. A small investment will be made, somewhere along the lines of $150 billion and then the irreversible will be really irreversible.