The Pre-Inaugural Bash
by Ed Naha

Remember the good old days, like a month ago, when Obama was seen as the bringer of hope? These days, according to the pundit pooh-poohers and the blogger banshees, the guy can't do anything right.

He talks too much. He's not saying enough. He's not doing enough. He's hogging the spotlight. He's not strong enough. And, forget about his Cabinet-to-be. It's not liberal enough. It's too Republican. It's not Republican enough. There's only one Hispanic and, of course, it's the one that Chinese-Americans don't like. Clinton's too risky. Gates is a Bush mole. There are too many old faces. Where are the new ideas? Where's Howard Dean? Where's Wesley Clark? Where's Dennis Kucinich? Where's Michael Moore? Where's Waldo?

Not too bad, considering the guy can't legally even order a tuna melt at the White House for another six weeks and change. Still it goes on. Frustrated by the fact that the "real" President, one George W. Bush, is too busy giving mind-numbing "exit" interviews (White Out at the ready!) to pay attention to the daily chaos known as the American life style, everyone is lobbing grenades at Obama for not taking charge of our foundering ship of state.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) gave voice to this frustration when he stated: "He's (Obama's) going to have to be more assertive than he's been. At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he says we only have one president at a time. I'm afraid that he overstates the number of presidents we have. He's got to remedy that situation."

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