Just when did the Obama administration end? Was it was when he lost Saturday Night Live? When Chicago lost the Olympics? When people forgot his dog’s name? When John Boehner emerged from the President’s meeting with Republican senators on Afghanistan this week and said nice things about him?
It’s hard to be president, particularly of a country with the attention span of a may fly. Having elected this guy to clean up an enormous mess, we promptly forgot the enormous mess, until, apparently, we noticed it again several days ago—Look! There’s a recession! Hey! There’s two wars going on! Yikes! Crazy people hate health care reform! Wow! Republicans don’t like Democrats!
Who’s in charge here, anyway?
Barack Obama.
Is this the same Barack Obama who discovered insulin, designed the Chrysler Building, fathered three United States Senators, swam the English Channel? This guy looked pretty good last November, and here we are, 11 months later, and still in deep doo-doo.
As meaningful health care reform looks more doable day by day, the stock market rises, the recession bottoms out, it’s hard to look past Jon Stewart and SNL. Yes, Afghanistan could be a nightmare and the banks are still underregulated and global warming is probably a long-term disaster and no one will do anything about energy conservation in the near future. The ointment is teeming with flies.
But that’s how we came to pick this boy wonder in the first place. Things were so fouled up that, hey, how could he do any worse than the people we’d already tried?
Not exactly a high benchmark for success, but good enough for America, I think. Maybe Obama is struggling, but I say don’t shoot him yet.
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