Well, good golly, Miss Molly, what's a man to do?   You get yourself elected the president of the good ole U. S. of A. with a strong majority of the electorate in your corner, the news media has labeled you the next FDR, you inherit the task of righting the worse condition our country has been in in 60 or more years, you have to deal with the drool that the last "Commander in Chief" left behind as he slept with dreams of Oil riches falling from the sky into his portfolio (you know, the one he had to surrender to be president but can now resurrect after he left office; yeah that's the one, now worth ten times what it was before he was "elected" - twice!) and your standing there in your office feeling very much like a square peg in an oval hole and can't seem to keep your mind focused on draining the swamp with all the friggin' gators nipping at your gonads, and everybody saying "we should have elected the white girl!" - is that what's bothering you, bunky?  

Somebody say ENOUGH ALREADY and let's cut the man some slack!   Yes, he has made some mistakes and things aren't going as well as he, and we as a nation, hoped they would.  There has been progress on the healthcare bill, arguably the most contentious piece of legislation ever to wind, unwind, wind its way through the halls and sewers of Congress, but little else has been accomplished.  That's because what's left on his plate cannot be "fixed" in short order.  Much of the problems with the fractured economy and the resulting loss of jobs, and the housing debacle, are rooted in the removal of regulations governing the financial institutions in the country that, by and large, must be re-regulated and monitored to see if the new, updated regulations are adequate to govern these institutions.  It will take time to write the new regs and get them in place; time, it seems, the impatient American people are unwilling to give our prez. 

We are a strange lot.  We criticized our last president, Cowboy George, for being careless, inconsiderate and a bully in making his decisions.  We called him to task because he did not seek adequate advice or counsel.  Now with Obama, FDR in blackface (according to the news media), we expect him to dance around all the obstacles that those in both the Donkey's and the Elephant's party who oppose his ideas/plans have set in front of him, and to pass legislation that will fix all problems, by waving his magic wand.  He'd be better off to toss the wand (maybe even sticking it up Rush Limbaugh's ass) and put on some ruby slippers, click twice and get the hell back to Kansas, er, Illinois!  

I admit I do have empathy bordering on sympathy for Obama because he did inherit a colossal mess that has been building since the Carter days.  Every president, beginning with Carter's deregulation of AT&T, has removed one or more of the regulations in place to keep big business, the banks and the financial institutions in check so that they could not run amok from greed.  One by one as the regulations were weakened or removed, those institutions began imprudent practices, some of which bordered dangerously on fraud and other illegal undertakings, until we finally hit bottom in the fourth quarter, 2008.  It took over twenty years to get into the mess we are in today.  It will take more than 20 weeks to get out of it!

Perhaps, instead of taking Mr. Obama to task, we should look closely at our other elected politicians and see how well they are playing with the other kids in the schoolyard.  Since the president has been sworn in, in January, 2009, the Republicans have openly declared that they will do everything in their power to see that he fails.  That pronouncement didn't play as well as they hoped and they have since modified their stance only to have the far right dandies in the party declare that they will not compromise one iota and will stay true to their beliefs!  When the far left duds in the Dems heard that bit of news, they vowed to start their own group of block heads and refused to compromise on their positions as well.

Now folks, what the hell does that prove?  There are two, count 'em, two large groups of legislators who are refusing to work with each other preferring to hold their collective breaths until they turn blue and pass out rather than work out a compromise that will help get us out of this mess.  You dumb ass bastards on the far right think you are doing Jesus' work and you dumb ass bastards on the far left think you are doing Man's work.  Well I got some news for you both, your doing NOTHING but making bigger asses of yourselves on a daily basis.  We need people in Washington and in our state legislatures as well, that are willing to do the hard work of developing common ground that both sides can live with and that can be used to write reasonable laws that we all need to observe.

Let's place the blame where it should be placed - Congress, Congress, and Congress!  If we can't straighten these bastards out let's vote 'em out!  And the first one who runs on a religious agenda like "I will work to make this a Christian Nation like it was when our forefathers formed it," should not receive a single vote but should be tried and imprisoned for crimes against the Constitution.  We are NOT NOW, NEVER WERE and should NEVER BE a Christian Nation!  Hell, Christ wasn't even a Christian, he was a Jew!  We are a Nation where Christianity and all religions can openly and freely be practiced without fear of harassment or persecution from the government or other religions.  So let's stop trying to save each other's soul and start trying to live with one another in peace and acceptance of our differences.  Knock off the ultra religious bullshit; nothing good will come of it!

Well, agree, disagree, don't give a damn?  Please let me know your thoughts on this.  Opinions will be printed without comment.  Thanks, Jim.