Let's cut the President some slack [View All]

[FightingIrish]

I’m getting awfully tired of the whiney kids in the back seat asking President Obama, “Are we there yet.” I’m getting tired of the lower life forms who can put everything they know on an offensive bumper sticker, and do. I’m getting tired of political hacks in the declining party trying to save themselves by punching holes in the only lifeboat we have. I'm getting tired of the highly paid oracles of ignorance polluting the air waves with venomous lies and exhortations to assassination.

What I’m not getting tired of is watching a real president do his job. I take the time to watch most of his addresses and never cease to be amazed that we have a president who really understands the many complicated issues he is dealing with. His current poll numbers are lower than the astronomical ones that were based upon unrealistic expectations of what any president can do in very flawed political system. I do not agree with all of his tactical and strategic choices but I still have great faith in his motivation.

By this time in Bush’s first term we had seen way too much nauseating footage of his recreational activities in Crawford. We had seen his predictable response to the attack on our nation that he had enabled. We had seen him launch one war and talk up another war he had already committed us to. As a survivor of eight years of the worst president ever, I’m inclined to have patience with the man we elected who is just getting started and gaining momentum every day.