[THIS IS A REPEAT OF A POST I WROTE BACK IN APRIL. YOU MAY ALSO RECOGNIZE THE PHOTO FROM LAST JULY. THESE ARE NOT LEFTOVERS. THEY ARE ENCORE PRESENTATIONS ....]
Ok, so maybe not everyone is a fan of President Obama, but I feel someone's gotta come to his defense.
The guy's been in office little more than two years, and what a mountain of (let's just say) issues he's had to tackle!
He inherits a global financial crisis that plunged the country into its worst economic recession ever, with effects that kept on rippling:
A banking crisis that threatened to bankrupt the middle class
Housing foreclosures at a never-seen-before high
Surge in unemployment.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
The largest oil spill in history
Spreading rebellions in the Arab world
Catastrophic natural disasters in Haiti and Japan.
... Have I overlooked anything?
... Meanwhile, he has to deal with the 9/11 defendants at Gitmo, make good on a campaign promise of universal health care, overhaul immigration policy, parry with China, and somehow formulate an energy policy that will keep taxpayers happy.
All of the above is in addition to the usual political cycle of budgets, foreign visits (gotta go accept that Nobel Peace Prize), appointing Supreme Court justices, campaigning, fundraisers, speeches after shooting massacres ....
Did I mention a re-election campaign?
Global warming?
All in two years!
He's been insulted on live Tv by a member of Congress, and needed stitches on his mouth after being elbowed during a basketball game with staff (flagrant foul, IMO).
Furthermore, no other president has had to deal with lingering questions regarding his citizenship, and whether or not he is really a Christian.
Like, give the guy a break!
Whether or not you're a supporter of President Obama, you gotta admit his term so far has been dealing with some serious events and problems. The poor guy's more beleaguered than a youth athletic association .... Yet he's been undeniably productive as chief executive of a country with 310 million inhabitants. Plus, the guy has a family with young daughters and a dog .... I manage a household of five and can barely drag myself to the grocery store. I don't know how he accomplishes all he does, and I gotta give him a lotta credit for working so hard and so long. I doubt he gets to spend anywhere near as much time on Facebook as I do.
It's too late for this year, but starting in 2012 I'd like to see Presidents' Day transformed into Give The President A Break Day. It could be a moratorium on criticizing whoever's the current president. Just for a day. One day. Twenty-four hours. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O 'Reilly could have music if they couldn't trust themselves on the air, like the national anthem sung by Christina Aguilera .... Maybe FLOTUS can send the president an edible arrangement, and everyone in the room gets to say something nice about him. I guarantee he will return to solving the Crisis of the Month with a much lighter heart.
Give The President A Break Day. Now, I could have managed that with George W. Bush for a day. One day. Twenty-four hours. So you can too, Glenn, Sarah, Michele, Donald, Mitt, Mike, John and Newt, et al. You have 10 months to plan what you are NOT going to say about President Obama next February 20.
So get on it!
... And also on that day I think it would be really great if the president's Secret Service team would all dress like gangsta types or hip hop posses. ... Or that could be for Halloween; it really doesn't matter when it is, but it'd be wicked cool ....
Pass it along, and remember, It's all (c)opyrighted(c)2012(c)
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