by Vicki Phipps

Created on: October 25, 2009   Last Updated: November 29, 2009

Sometimes it seems so easy to run the country from my living room, and if anyone would agree to listen to ME, I'd know exactly what to do to improve all our issues. Then again, this ability only seems true when I watch FOX news. It's like being a victim of,"The Stockholm Syndrome," when I'm stuck in a rut, quoting men who get paid to make me hate the president so much that I begin to identify with some wise guy who talks way too much.

In fact, just the other day Glen Beck, the talk show host who knows the most, stood before a chalk board on world wide TV, and like a presidential professor of some kind, he tried to teach people like me, of all human beings, how to run the country from the comfort of my own living room, just in case I ever become president of the USA some day. Even so, and no matter how wise his advise might have been, it seemed insane to me that I could be taught by a talk show host, much less the view of doom and gloom through FOX news, whose extreme negative opinions might not have anything to do with the truth, much less reveal the reality of being a president of the USA today. That's why I made up my mind that I should step into a true president's shoes if I'm going to write an article that states, "If I were president of the United States," before I even try to fill in the blank.

I suppose if I were a black man with an Arabic name, like the current president remains, the first thing I'd do before I ever thought of running a race for president of the United States would be to ask my mother, "Why did you actually choose to name me Barrack Hussein, for heaven's sake?" Then again, I assume that if she had known what would make some Americans afraid today, she'd probably had named me George or Butch, so since she obviously had no clue what I'd face one day, I'd need the audacity to hope that at least most Americans would know that those names that rhyme with mine won't mean that words we've heard make three separate human beings become one in the same. After all, that's why I wrote the book, "The Audacity of Hope." Who knows? Maybe they'll see that it's okay to embrace a diverse name. After all, stranger things have happened in and within Americans who live within the USA, right?

That's why I'd say if I were to run a race to be the president of these divided United States of America today and if I happened to be a black democrat with an Arabic name, the first thing I'd do after resolving the issues of my race and my name, would be to fall

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