Jee Whiz people!

Cut the man some slack! Dang, ever since he got elected there's been nothing but kvetching about every decision he's made, and he doesn't even have the job yet.

I swear, the very first decision he made (what was it now? Oh yeah, Chief of Staff!) met with terrible guffaws and derision! the guy's too Clintonian! the guy's too mean! I thought Obama wanted something new, different, kind!

One decision he amde about the Treasury position got the market to go up for a day. Which is actually a sad commentary on our economy - that billions of dollars can be made or lost depending on what name is dropped. That's like making a decision on which house to buy by seeing how the chicken bones drop.

Then we get scathes from NC of La Raza, suggesting that Bill Richardson was a consolation prize for Hispanics! My goodness, as much as I've railed against the unfair treatment of Hispanics in this country (and I'll say it again - Hispanics are much more mistreated in this century than African-Americans in this same timeframe) (Note how I mentioned TIME), I have to say that this is a bit of a stretch.

He hired these individuals based on how well he thinks they'll get the job done. anything else would be irrevocably stupid. do we seriously believe that Barack Obama really wants to fail? If you think so, then you are irrevocably stupid. Of course he wants this to work. If he thought Richardson would have made a better Sec of State than Hillary Clinton then he would have hired him!

any kvetching about racism is ludicrous, and is actually counter productive to our cause, in that white America will see us as a bunch of complainers. Back off La Raza, please!

Now, there was a hate radio jock out there who was whining like a little sissybully that the podium of Office of the President-Elect was arrogant, and that there was nothing in his (the hate radio jock's) Constitution about the office of the President-elect.

Let me take this in two points:
One, I agree that's it's not in the Constitution, but this is a time in which the American people are looking for leadership. Obama is giving that to them. Obama was building his cabinet and Bush is going to Peru. The stock market goes up and down daily based on Obama's decisions about that tie to wear that day. I think the podium is simply giving the people the reassurance that they need that, frankly, President Bush has never given.

Two, don't any of you rightwing neo-fascist scumbags out there EVER mention the Constitution again - any person who supports President Bush can NOT be a supporter of the Constitution, in that the Constitution was written to create a TRI-partate government and was specifically designed not to allow one branch to become greater than another. The list of the Bushian tactics to make the Executive branch more powerful than the others is legendary. The warrantless wiretapping is the most egregious example; the history of refusing to answer Congressional questioning is another. The examples are endless. Suffice it to say, a supporter of President Bush is not a supporter of the Constitution, because he himself is not.

(By the way, everything I'm writing here IS protected under the Constitution . . . at least I still hope it is anyway)

Lastly, this birth certificate thing - that one kind of throws me, because wouldn't you think that they would have found this out a long time ago, if it truly was a problem? And I also think it's a bit late in the game to be coming up with this anyway.

And plus, just to throw in my own red herring . . . I doubt sincerely that Abe Lincoln could have come up with a birth certificate. And at least Barack Obama was born on American soil, not some canal that we were renting from the Panamanians for 97 years!

(or WAS he? some people are trying to say that he was born in Kenya!)

Jee Whiz, this gets to be too much . . . I'm going for a snack.

Where's my Post Toasties!?



VG