Fifty Six: The Anointing of BO

Here we go. I guess today is something between a royal coronation and religious installation, except that our Constitution is supposed to proscribe both of those types of practices in our politics. But since we are now governed by opinion polls instead of by laws, and since the mostly liberal media stands in judgment of us instead of our judiciary, a royally reliegious political ceremony is probably just about right.

Although he certainly doesn't need it, I actually have some pity for poor BO. As I said in an earlier post, he's got nowehre to go but down. He had his best days as president before he ever became president. My liberal friends always bring up JFK as an example of a president popular at the beginning and remaining so. But of course they miss the point that if JFK had not been assasinated, who knows what would have happened. I think, and many agree with me, that his popularity would have tanked.

BO is a bubble, just like the the dot-com bubble and the housing bubble. When the media finds out that BO is human, that he is not superman, that he has no discernible management skills, that he is not imbued with special ethics, or insights, or honesty, or morality, they will rush to condemn him as they now adore him. Poor guy.

Fifty Five: Obama's Peak

Here is another first for BO: He has reached the peak of his popularity and political power before ever taking the oath of office. The lions of TV journalism (viz. Campbell Brown types) have noted with appropriate amazement the positive approval ratings of a president-elect who by definition has never carried out an official act. This kind of pre-coronation euphoria might be expected or rationalized in a leader who has demonstrated proven leadership abilities in running a major state or corporation or other large entity. But what has BO done to justify this irrational and misplaced confidence? What are his credentials? I almost pity the poor guy. He's got nowhere to go but down.

Fifty Four: The Oblackama Senate Seat

Politicians are such incredible toadies, and in this case I'm referring to Harry Reid. After taking a very clear stand that he would not seat any nominee coming from Blago, when confronted with the prospect of declining to seat a black candidate, he crumpled like a cheap suit. The junior senate seat from Illinois has now become a "black seat," much the same as the Cook County board president is now a default black position.