When the president is going to be on TV, do you expect to learn something from him and know more afterward than you did before?  I sure don’t.  It seems to be a lost art, the president informing the nation in a serious non-political manner.  Not blaming the previous president for all the woes of his office, as if each presidency is a TV series episode that’s neatly wrapped up at the end of each show.  Or being able to speak off-the-cuff and communicate in an intelligible fashion.  The last three presidents haven’t been able to communicate well, or if they could wouldn’t communicate truthfully.

This isn’t just Democrat party presidents either.  Bush couldn’t communicate well, but he was at least truthful.  So it’s been 20 years since we’ve had a president who could talk to the nation as presidents should.  What does this mean?  An entire generation has been born and is reaching voting age without ever seeing one.  They might not even know that this isn’t how it’s supposed to be.

Three in a row is indicative of something, but what?  The obvious connection seems to be the demise of the Cold War, so perhaps we don’t elect serious presidents because it doesn’t seem to be serious times.  A young Democrat comes along and talks about hope and change, including altering the ocean levels, and people fall for it because it sounds good to them.  It doesn’t make sense at the time and what you hear after the inauguration predictably doesn’t make sense either.

I long for a president who can explain stuff on TV without a teleprompter and leaves me knowing something I didn’t know before and can trust is truthful.  Can Romney do this?  Maybe, maybe not.  But the present occupier certainly cannot.