What America needs most is a Patriotic President, a president who puts love of country well above love of self.

America needs a president who, even before coming forward, has already shoved his ego into his back pocket; one wise enough to ignore the pandering of the moment and one whose head is never turned by Mae West type publicity.

America needs a president who won’t try to hog the limelight with “I-sang-to-Chelsea” folklore when needing to steal attention from other celebrities like the Duchess of Cambridge, but one who will belt out the American anthem at the top of his/her lungs every chance they get.

It’s not lullabies to Chelsea but God Bless America that needs public airing.

The president who can turn an upside-down America right side up again is one who knows that ‘bipartisanship’ is only an imaginary tool, pulled out of the bottom of the trick bag, by truth-ducking career politicians like Senator John McCain.

Go to the lavish lounges of any political chamber, at any level of government, and see for yourself how the same politicians you saw on last night’s news hurling insults at each other, are now glad-handing and back-slapping each other in absolute glee.

In public, politicians of all stripes make like they hate each other. In private, politicians work in concert making deals that keep their nests well feathered.

Real leadership being more necessary than celebrity cult to return America back to a stable state, calls for a leader who will blow raspberries at blowhard protesters like Occupy Wall Street (OWS) ones who need someone to run their cafe lattés to them between sore throat chants.

Fellas and gals out protesting need their coffee breaks when doing “die-ins” in front of public buildings.

America needs the kind of firm leadership which will send scurrying like White House rats, the followers of a crazed, sore-infested, living on the avails of their parents and rich friends, Marxist malcontent like Karl Marx, whose brain was in worse shape than his boil-studded body.

New blood is needed in Washington to rid the White House of the still-living-in-the-1960s unelected czars that form the wavery ‘O’ in Obama’s over-exposed logo. It’s time for the czars to be shifted from the White House to institutions for the aged where they can listen to recorded Obama and Jonathan Gruber speeches—hopefully in another country.

America needs a serious Commander in Chief who puts the comfort of war veterans ahead of that of Hollywood stars, who, like millions of others in the world, pays sincere respect to a military who made a peaceful life in the West possible; a Commander in Chief who doesn’t cut and run from every threat from a group he exaggeratedly claims that he already rid the world of.

Even with the Karl Roves pushing yet another Bush on America, and the Dems harboring another Clinton, the presidency of the United States does not belong to either the Republican or Democrat Party. It belongs, lock, stock and barrel to We the People.

Does a turnaround America need Dr. Ben Carsons as its next president?

Perhaps.

The last thing being discussed about Ben Carson is his colour. And that’s as it should be.

Carson is a giver not a taker. He doesn’t just talk about the need to support underprivileged school children, he sets up ongoing bursaries for them.

The difference between a Barack Obama and a Ben Carson couldn’t possibly be more stark. Obama feeds class warfare, fuels racial unrest and rails about growing up in America in a single parent home, without ever bothering to thank an America that bestowed upon him a life of privilege. Carson was goaded on to success by a mother whose motto is: “Do your best and God will do the rest”. In his poverty-challenged youth, with a mother who steadfastly refused victim status, Carson was reading books, not writing them.

Ben Carson personifies American exceptionalism. Admiration for him is international because even with all odds stacked against him, Carson went on to turn poverty into celebrated success.

Does America need Mrs. Sonya Carson’s little boy, Benjamin Carson, as president?

If not him, then someone just like him!

Judy McLeod