With so much going on in the world of politics today, it’s so hard to know what to think.  Don’t you think so?

We’ve got “birthers” who claim the President Obama is an illegal and undocumented alien; we’ve got President Obama chiming in on a local police matter; we’ve got demagoguery from a dilettante to the north; and a Fox news anchor calls President Obama a racist.

Members of Congress have introduced legislation that would require future presidential candidates to “prove” their documented status, giving credence to the birther morons.

The President is pouring for the professor and the police officer this afternoon, a kegger for the fellows from Cambridge, trying to ameliorate his premature judgment on what should have remained a local law enforcement matter.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continues to blame the media for all of her missteps in politics, and wraps her resignation in the arms of our military overseas.

And Glenn Beck asserts the President is a racist.

We average folk outside of the Washington beltway and Wall Street don’t need to read the newspapers or watch cable’s talking heads to know things are tough.  We feel it every day as we look for work, or listen to our friends tell us how they lost their job or are losing their house.  We cringe when two bags of groceries cost us $80, and it doesn’t come close to filling the fridge.

AIG and Goldman Sachs are making a fortune with our money.  Goldman Sachs doesn’t even lend money – - it doesn’t finance businesses, it doesn’t help people buy homes.  It’s in the business of making money, not lending it.  When the collective state shortfalls right now stand at around $165 billion, our tax dollars have enriched these scoundrels by $180 billion. Does that make sense to the average guy?

Too big to let fail?  What about the states and the taxpayers in them?  Treasury Secretary Geithner tells us it’s okay we don’t know what those ratbastards have done with our money, but he and the Obama administration will allow states to default and taxpayers to lose their homes in that ignorance.

The President is having a cold one with two strangers because he loosed his lips when he should have remained silent.  Congress is wasting our money and their time with ignorant legislation about birth certificates just to placate morons whose true beef really isn’t documentation in the first place. These are the most important issues facing us today, worthy of front page stories?

Locally, one of our young men is being buried this week after giving what President Abraham Lincoln referred to as the “last full measure of devotion.”  Lest we forget, we’re still at war in Afghanistan.  Cpl. Nicholas Xiarhos is one of its latest victims, killed in a roadside bomb blast last Thursday. He will be buried tomorrow at the Massachusetts National Cemetery on Cape Cod.

So, here’s what the average guy in America is thinking at the moment:  Get those assclown birthers and their friends,  that petulant little girl from Alaska, the beer preferences of the guys from Cambridge, and all of that other crap off the front pages and off the list of important stuff in America today.

They don’t help people buy groceries or find new jobs or keep their homes.  They don’t have anything to do with bringing our brothers and sisters home from Afghanistan and Iraq.  They don’t help people through their days or get them back to their beds at night safely.

There’s much anger in this country today.  When folks get angry, they need someone or something to focus that anger on and someone to blame for it.  Issues tend to become more polarized, more good vs. bad only, no gray.

It becomes necessary to reduce causes to simple terms, to find ten word explanations for everything bad.  The vacuum in true and meaningful leadership, coupled with all the crazy nonsense wasting space on those newspaper pages, does all of the average guys and gals a disservice.

The average guy thinks we got screwed on the economy, thinks we’re getting screwed by those our tax dollars bailed out, and fears we’re going to get screwed by the coming deficits.  How’s that for verb conjugation?

So, Mr. President, and members of Congress, take care of those things first, bring our troops home, and extricate us from war.   And, stop wasting time on all that other “stuff.”

Perhaps not eloquently stated, but it’s all there.