Lighten Up...!

#1...

Picture a tired looking guy in a tweed coat with elbow patches and a beard...hair somewhat messy...obviously an intellectual. Picture him in a grocery store and the sign above his head says, "Aisle 7...Milk, Eggs, Dairy"

Then imagine a caption to the scene...

"Dr. Arthurman spent many years in Eggs Aisle"

#2...

What are you doing if you drive past a car in Prague full of criminals?

You are passing bad Czechs...

#3...

Too bad about Bill Richardson...and too bad for Obama...not an auspicious start.

First Blagojevich, now this. What does this say about his judgment? What does this portend for the future of his nascent administration?

Well, I would posit, that he'll be fine. Well, at least until the glow subsides and the novelty wears off and he settles in to the hardscrabble game of Washington politics.

It'll be business as usual...lobbyists, Georgetown parties, cronyism. But it will be with all new faces.

Does Obama have a mandate? Maybe...simply to not be George Bush (careful... Poppy's talkin' Jeb up for '12...no beating around the bush there...)

But when he gets into negotiations with Congress he'll piss a few voters off by not offering what they want or by cutting some prized program or by staying in Iraq or by going into Iran or by bad-mouthing Israel about Gaza.

Whatever, he'll get into trouble and we'll be back in the soup. But we'll only have to wait until '10 and the start of the '12 campaign and then the GOP will have something to talk about. Palin and Jeb and Coleman and Jindal. (Go Al...255 is a victory nonetheless...!)

And Obama will start to run the Oval Office as a campaign office and will have his bright eyes on the '12 election, incumbent or not.

I wish him well...God knows we need him to succeed what with Wall Street and Detroit and the Middle East and Global Warming. But can he succeed in the current climate in which no one is willing to accept responsibility for anything? It's always someone else's fault, someone else is to blame.

Never me , no not me...never!

So here we go...a few weeks until the most anticipated Inauguration ever. Bush rambling on about his legacy, Cheney rambling on about his and Obama hoping, against hope, to actually turn this lunacy around before we go over the edge...like Wile E. Coyote...spinning his wheels and hovering until he looks down and then.....a small cloud of smoke at the bottom of the canyon...and the end.

But...hey...lighten up...

#4...

Knock, knock...!