From where I sit, the principal change since our historic election of Barack Change Obama is that I am not assaulted by his image all day on TV. I appreciate the reprieve, I do. But he seems to me to be hiding.
He’s already been elected, right? Alls he has to do is produce that birth certificate, and he’s in, right? Why is he playing his cards so close to the vest, like a man who is still campaigning? I know, I know…we can only have one president at a time. Fine time for the American Idol President Elect to assume a low profile.
For me, because I have objected from the get-go that his off-the-cuff remarks do NOT support claims of his brilliance, the silence is conspicuous. Does he HAVE any fresh ideas? WHAT IS HE SAVING THEM FOR? A Grand Entrance…Camelot AND Cavalry?
Perhaps while the country is in free-fall, we could have some overlapping of brainpower…that’d be somethin’ different.
Certainly Change is not made manifest by his cabinet appointments, one Suit more familiar than the other. MORE of the people under whose stewardship the country has gone pretty much to hell. Tom Daschle’s wife being a registered Lobbyist is a nice in-your-face touch.
Roll the tape from a Roundtable on November 9th to hear Cynthia Tucker say that Obama “owes the Latinos a great deal” and suggest that a cabinet post for Bill Richardson would be an appropriate settling of favors.
Yep. I remember when Bill Richardson threw his support to Obama. Biden, too. Iowa…where “wheeling, dealing, haggling and horse trading” resulted in a big big bounce for Obama. So many of them put their own careers ahead of the good of the nation…and they’re so obvious about it, not even a pretense of propriety anymore…that it is very dispiriting indeed.
Has there not also been talk of a possible appointment for former Congressman Jim Leach, Iowa Republican who surprised his party by lining up with Obama? Yes, there has.
Baggage with Eric Holder? Full matching set.
It is as though he never gave one moment’s thought to who he would put in which position…or like he’s stringing out the announcements to keep the media percolating.
Bailouts right, left and center, with discrimination suits galore on their heels. Nope, no change there. Fresh faces in office? Nope, shot that wad on Obama apparently. Doing the same thing expecting different results constitutes a brand of insanity…Obama RAN on that. And Change.
WHAT’S CHANGED?
We’re doing the same thing with the bailouts. Who in their right mind proposes to dig companies out by giving money to the same executives who drove the companies into the ground? No one in their right mind.
But people in their LEFT mind would thusly give away money…other people’s, natch. They can’t give ENOUGH of it…NO! to $700 billion, YES! to $850 billion. The not-Right right will certainly REQUEST such money…why not? No harm in asking. Too much ventured, nothing lost…it is human nature to take advantage wherever and whenever possible.
It is practical punishment that deters the dark side of human nature, not lofty rhetoric. Prison sentences for corrupt executives and corrupt public officials…THAT would be change I could believe in.
Who proposes to do THAT with the same old people? It is incestuous, with loyalty inbred among nincompoops and carpetbaggers…think Governmental Deliverance.