President Obama, you might want to knock off the gloom, doom and malaise in your address to the Congress and the nation this evening and think about a half-time pep talk to, “Win One For The Gipper.”

Mr. President take a page from the ‘great communicator,’ President Ronald Reagan, who made this country proud to be Americans.  In addition, he gave them hope. They felt good about themselves and their country.  He instilled confidence and they were willing to spend their money and invest.

Meanwhile what we hear from you is, ‘catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe,’ all to downplay your spending spree — not a stimulus package — lowering the public’s expectations of your trillion dollar spending plan to revitalize the financial institutions, the housing market, bring back jobs and instill confidence in the stock market.  Within one month in office you have spent more than President Bush spent in 7 years in office, including two wars, all under the guise that you are going to return 3 million jobs to this nation, restore the housing market, financial institutions and the stock market.  No one believes you Mr. President.  Not the financial  institutions, not the job market, not the real estate market least of all the stock market.

People are holding on to their money, as are the banks who you gave billions to.  There is no confidence.

You may speak with a silver spoon in your mouth, but your rhetoric in one month, along with your spending spree, is tanking the entire system.  You are not, as former President Clinton has admonished, instilling confidence among the people with your rhetoric.

I urge you to think about this before you take another drastic step of doom and gloom rhetoric this evening — threatening tax increases by phasing out the tax advantages provided by the Bush administration, introducing plans to impact social security, Medicare and pension plans in order to improve the deficit picture so that you can be re-elected four years from now.

It’s not about you Mr. President, it’s about, ‘We the People.’