Does President Obama Live in a Protective Bubble?

President Obama is not unlike any other of our past presidents when it comes to safety issues. The secret service is tasked with protecting the president from harm. The problem may be that when you protect someone from harm you create a circle around them so that anyone who disagrees with their views or policies does not get too close so as to protect them from harm.

It is the views of those very people who are willing to tell a president that he is wrong and to not always agree with every idea or process he may come up with to solve problems. We all disagreed with President Bush when people were held at a distance when he visited New Mexico so how can we begin to approve it when President Obama visits this state.

The President of the United States should hear all of the views from all of the voting public. Without all of the facts how can he begin to understand how the voting public feels about issue that affects Main Street America. Tomorrow protesters will be staged off of the Rio Rancho Campus. The question is will he even know they are there and what they are protesting about or will he live in his protective bubble?

The funding from the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act is not being used to save educational jobs or to protect students but only to build more empty buildings. What good are empty buildings if the students don’t have the people they need to make them successful? What good is handing over tax reductions to a retirement fund that is being abused by locally elected officials? These are all issues that the President should be made aware of when he comes to visit our state but will his protective detail protect him from the truth?

I hope to hear that President Obama stopped to listen to all views when it came to his first visit to New Mexico.