Now, don't get me wrong.  I love our president.  I really do.  With but a few exceptions, I think he's just aces.

Unfortunately, those exceptions are not exactly...well, small. 

I don't love what Barack Obama stands for.  I don't love what he believes in.  I don't love what he thinks, what he tells us, and what he does. 

I don't love his partisanship and his lies.  I don't love his divisiveness, his hypocrisy, and his secrecy.  I especially don't love the fact that he ran and won the presidency on a pledge to the American people to bring a new form of openness to Washington.

He did.

It's worse.

From sending the economy plummeting over a cliff, from disavowing imminently more dangerous assaults on the Constitution than even Dick Nixon ever did, to Obama's more odious and ominous sociopathic deceitfulness and refusal to apologize for calling his presidential opponent a felon.  The man completely overlooks the fact that, for the last 20 years of his life, he has courted the company of some of the worst convicted felons in America (the commandant-in-chief is from Chicago, remember)?

But those shortcomings pale by comparison to his latest political stunt.  When he stepped up to the podium and, in the loudest psycho-babble voice imaginable, announced to the world that D. J. Herda didn't build his business by myself, and that my agent didn't build her business by herself, and that most of the successful small business people I know didn't build their businesses by themselves, Obama exposed himself for what he truly is: a left-wing nanny-state socialist in Democrats' clothing.

Mr. President, tear down this wall.

Such an incendiary and unmistakable nod toward a European-style social state by someone who owes the American people more--much more--are an insult to every hard-working American everywhere.  Deviously planned to strip the average citizen of the working man's ethics and force him to embrace the Obama Well of Lost Souls, his rhetoric is more divisive than rational.  In fact, as one commentator reacted after hearing the man's speech, "The guy just doesn't have a clear grasp of reality."

I don't agree.  The guy doesn't have any grasp of reality.

Of course, psychopaths live in their own worlds with their own set of morals and their own scruples and realities.  They created them: only they can change them, ignore them, hide behind them, or expand upon them on a moment's notice.  All to advance the cause du jour.

Which, in Obama's case, is Four More Years.  And damn the torpedoes--full speed ahead! 

God knows we've taken our share of shots across the bow.

And I…am D. J. Herda.

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D. J. Herda is President of the American Society of Authors and Writers (http://amsaw.org), an organization made up of authors, writers, editors, publishers, agents, directors, producers, and other media professionals who rely upon the printed word in the creation of quality literature and entertainment.  He is a member of the Author's Guild, a former member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and a former member of the National Press Club.  He has published more than 80 books and several hundred thousand articles, short stories, columns, interviews, plays, and scripts.