Fat Chance...

The Fat Lady is singing and nobody's listening.

It seems that wherever you turn everyone is screaming about the state of affairs around the world.

Whether it's Afghanistan or the Economy or BP ...or even the World Cup...it's all dire, dire, dire.

And of course, it's all President Obama's fault. Never mind that the current series of problems were inherited...the seeds were all sewn during previous administrations(Democrat and Republican alike)

Obama didn't cause these things to happen. Ok, maybe he has been slow to respond and maybe there has been some foot-dragging and possibly even avoidance...but he's not the cause.

After all...who created the problem in Afghanistan? Some would argue it was the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. But now we learn that Afghanistan is rich with minerals. Any possibility that the, still, secret meetings held by former Vice President Dick Cheney about energy would yield some explanations as to why we're really in Afghanistan? Any possibility there?

And the Wall Street meltdown. Any chance that the upcoming trial of Goldman Sachs (and possibly Messrs. Paulson, Geithner and Rubin...) will provide some light on the subject of why we almost went over the cliff because of derivatives (whatever they are...)and would have had it not been for the Stimulus?

And who caused the mess in the Gulf? Was it the MMS and Interior being too lax with Big Oil...way before Obama came into office? Any chance of that?

The only thing that I can hold Obama responsible for is the World Cup.

He's a basketball fan and amateur player. If he truly believed in world peace and harmonious coexistence he would install a soccer pitch on the White house lawn and send a bill to Congress calling for Soccer to be named the official sport of the U.S.

Not American Football or Baseball or Basketball or Hockey.

Soccer...or Football as it's known everywhere else on the planet.

We don't need Madonna and her adoption obsession. We need Maradona and his Football obsession.

And if we won a World Cup then maybe the rest of the world would see us as true champions. Not simply a country whose government hides behind its' military as it tries, desperately, to hold onto its' declining reputation in an ever changing world.

Vuvuzelas of the World Unite!! Let The Fat Lady try to sing with those as her accompaniment...

Impossible!!!