SHUT UP!!!

Try it the other way around, John. Maybe it is we who do not understand what Obama is doing. Maybe, precisely because of that lack of our understanding, we tend to go off the rails in our criticism of him. It is always the unknown that frightens us most. Maybe Obama knows something we don’t.

So we claw into history in an attempt to understand. It’s funny, how all the history books ever written involve turbulent times; heroes and villains. Because we’re pressed for time, we try to find the shortest book: ‘A Loser’s View of History’ (which should theoretically exist) and we see that it’s not on the shelf; that somebody must have taken it out and never returned it. Never mind; we’ve got quite enough here to pick from; in fact, more than enough to read.

Finally, we learn that every part of the world goes through good times and bad. This makes us feel better about our own situation. Maybe it’s just a rough patch (for whatever reason) - that has our new president looking so ineffective. But at least he’s trying – God! The man is practically everywhere at once. - No human being could do much better at this point – not with what he inherited. It’s all Bush’s fault, don’t you know – the one who used to smell like ‘sulfur’ (snicker, snicker).

Wouldn’t want to be him – Obama, that is. He’s got such a tough job; so much responsibility; so much to know, so much more than we could ever hope to grasp with our permanently scarred public school brains. God bless him! All those right-wingers don’t seem to understand that he’s our president now; that he’s the one who represents us to the world. And he’s doing a heck of a nice job, if I do say so myself. Did you hear all that applause our president got when he was speaking before the UN General Assembly? When was the last time that happened? …and if all those crazy right-wingers - all those wild-eyed Beck types - should have a problem with that, let them come out and vote for somebody else in the next election. Until then, “JUST SHUT [the (f)hell] UP!!!”