Published for Fox Forum at foxnews.com, September 3rd, 2010

The coverage of the growing disconnect between President Obama and America reminds me of some of my single friends lamenting the distance they feel with their boyfriends. For some of them, there’s a pattern – intense excitement at the promise of a new relationship, followed by bewilderment and anger as it starts to unravel, and ending in broken hearts and healing mantras of, “He just wasn’t right for me.”

There’s an old saying that a man marries a woman believing she’ll never change, and a woman marries a man believing she’ll be able to change him. Wrong on both counts – it doesn’t workthat way.

America was excited about its new relationship in January 2009 when it was fresh and shiny. Anything the new president said or did was captured on video and considered “Just amazing, and so funny, and so refreshing! I mean, did you SEE HIM catch that fly in the Oval Office? It was fantastic! He is the BEST!”

Several months later, the spark began to fade since unrealistic expectations can never be met.

America was confused over decisions that were at odds with what it wanted. Just where was this relationship going?

But hope sprang eternal – until another few months passed, and America started feeling jilted. “He just doesn’t understand me. He just doesn’t GET me. And, what’s worse, he doesn’t seem to care that he doesn’t. Lately I feel like he’s just saying what he thinks I want to hear. It’s like he’s just going through the motions.”

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