Thursday, February 5, 2009
Two weeks
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Obama has been president for two weeks and one day. Already there are rumblings in the press and polls because of the seeming disparity between promises of change and political as-usualness. Those of us who have been hopeful and optimistic (rather than adoring and certain) were startled but not especially upset when he appointed lobbyists and people who haven't been perfect. I will admit to chuckling at an imperfect moment this week, though, when Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that 500 million Americans are losing their jobs every month. Which would be tricky since there are only about 350 million Americans in existence and that includes children, very old people, statues and who knows all what else. Although maybe it's even worse than I thought and she's counting everyone as having two jobs and saying we're all losing both of them. No that's not it. Anyway, please give me brownie points for resisting pointing out the gazillions of bales of hay the press would have made of it had GWB said such a thing. Notice me resisting. Resisting.... Oh dear, I bet I lost my brownie points just by mentioning it, didn't I?

But to my point. I have to say I quite like the idea of people running things who themselves make mistakes and fell off the straight and narrow, because they know what real life is like. Especially if Obama thinks they're the right people for their expertise or past performance or whatever. We elected him and have to trust him. Isn't that what went wrong with Bush's presidency, to a large extent, after all? And it sure would be real change to have a government run by people who don't pretend to be better than the rest of us. It's smug and self-righteous and hypocritical that frosts most of us, not imperfection.

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