The Choice of Obama Drama

Believe it or not, choice was really at the bottom of today's Obama Drama.

Veiled under a fear of what he might say, was the common human panic when they are backed into a corner - when they feel they have no choice.

When something is forced, or seemingly forced, upon us, it is human nature to kick back. Even those who back the President questioned his approach, or at least the media's coverage of his approach.

People said they were worried he would give a socialist message, or talk healthcare, or perhaps turn our children into Democrats with latent hypnotic commands (okay I didn't hear this one, but I bet some bizarro believed it).

I believe the real issue was that we felt he was giving us no choice as parents. Our kids were in school, out of our control (because we as parents, after all, like to control our kids choices). He was the President, so surely all schools would be forced to show the video (didn't see the Nat'l Guard called out to enforce the viewing. Did you?). And, of course, the only way to protect our kids from seeing this obvious power-play against our freedoms was to keep kids at home, safe from harm, in front of their video-games.

Had the President communicated to the media about the choices available - watch it or don't, show it or don't - had he shown flexibility and overt willingness to enforce our freedom of choice, the drama would have been significantly lessened.

When you deal with people in your life, what choices are you giving them? Don't step on their freedoms - or they're likely to kick you in the (fill-in your own choice of words)!