The Faberge Egg

I remember being in fourth grade at East Valley Elementary School (or as we said it:” Eas Valley Elemenery Skool”) singing about the inauguration of President Richard Nixon. We sang:

Oh Richard Nixon, President of The USA!
Oh Richard Nixon, he will save the day.

Of course we didn’t sing that back then. They were too busy trying to teach us reading and writing and trying to crush our souls and not giving one whit about our self esteem. And paddling, boy did they like to paddle back in school back then. In fact, if we did sing song like that it would have sounded like:

Oh, (wham) Ow! Richard (wham) Ow! Nixon, (wham)

I guess you are expecting another right wing rant against the love affair some people have with President Obama. It is weird to see school children, singing about how great a President is, like he is some Dear Leader. As weird as it was when the President came into office being followed by a YouTube video of various “stars” pledging an “oath” to the President, including one oath not to flush after number one.

I think one of the things some people are realizing about the President is that the idea of President Obama was better than the fact of President Obama.

Here we had a self made man. Ok, an Oprah made man, but you get my point. He comes out of nowhere to win the White House. He not only defeated a true American hero (John McCain) and the best looking female/dingy politician in my life time (Sarah Palin), but also Hillary Clinton, who had spent the previous eight years measuring drapes in her mind.

Unlike President Bush, whom I like, but let’s face it, often seemed like a kid in school trying to ask for a hall pass, Obama could link a subject to a verb.

Above all, here was a man who was half-African and half Caucasian that was a law school professor. This is a liberal’s super-duper fantasy.

Nobody could argue with his huge brain or his rhetoric. Yes, we can have hope and change and skittles with Unicorns, and non-fattening milkshakes. All you got to do is sit down and talk to people and they will be captured in his wavelength.

Iran-easy pisy. Gitmo. Shut it down. Health care for everybody. Hey, here’s a stimulus package on top of that.

Things haven’t quite worked out that way. The economy is still sluggish, to be nice about despite billions of dollars to Democratic cronies. You can’t really shut Gitmo down. Iran is almost out of control.

Which leads to Healthcare.

I think this occurred: while talking about Healthcare with Rahm Emmanuel, Emmanuel mentions that the mistake they made in the Clinton White House is that they had a plan. Then people read the plan. Rush Limbaugh. Hate happened and the Healthcare Reform got tabled. So The President and Emmanuel decide to have their “Seinfeld” moment. Like Jerry and George, they decided that the Healthcare plan would be about nothing: no plan equals no complaints from those right wing bigots goobers that we depend upon for our tax revenue.

So they farmed it out to the House, which, on the Democratic side of the aisle, is nuts. Pretty soon the President had to go around and tell people that he had no plan, but if he did, killing Pee-paw was not a part of it. No sir, I don’t have a plan, but it I did, it would not include waiting for years to have Open Heart Surgery, that you should just take a pill for anyway.

So here we are, the President has fallen to earth real fast. He lets his Chicago buddies talk him into going to make a pitch for the Olympics, forgetting that in the past 30 years, the Olympics have been in the United States four times. (It’s true: Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and Salt Lake City; Summer in Los Angeles and Atlanta).

The President’s sales pitch, if you could call it that, should have been titled: “It Would Be Really Cool For Me To Get The Olympics”. It didn’t work, and the President left with just an inkling of knowing what it was like to be George W, Bush.

It looks like instead of a Roosevelt, we have a Carter. Instead of a Reagan, we have a Ford.

Chris Matthews reminded people that Obama had “a lot of crap left on his door”. We’ve had 44 Presidents and with the exception of one (Washington) all of them complained about what the last President left him with. John Adams said, “That Washington with his wooden teeth and all. He never told a lie. Yeah right.”

It looks like the mainstream media, in an effort to: a) right a social injustice and b) sell books, magazines,newspapers, and DVDs, decided not to ask the Senator from Illinois any tough questions. No, instead they treat him like a Faberge Egg. The problem is he doesn’t look that special at all.