Those that have read this blog for very long know that I worked hard to stop Barack Obama from becoming the 44th POTUS. You might have even been wondering why I haven’t gone out of my way since Nov. 4th to accumulate dirt on the Chosen One, why I haven’t been picking the many nits that the Office of the President Elect exhibits on a daily basis, why I haven’t begun a collection of Obama Drama like my friend Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles? BTW — Laer is currently highlighting the second potential Obama scandal, this time involving nominee for commerce secretary, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

Good questions. My first proclivity was to give the President-elect a chance, see just what his appointments and announcements would be, see the actual direction he would finally try to take the nation. Post election fatigue has also been a real problem for me. This blog is primarily about politics, but I like a healthy dose of eclectic observations and in the run up to 11/4 the focus became laser-beam tight. However, when I see a piece like the current “Person of the Year 2008 — Why History Can’t Wait“ article in Time Magazine I get focused again right away. I swear, author David Von Drehle must have rung out a bucket o’ personal nectar from his BVDs after writing this one as he’s wet all over himself starting with his description of the interview’s beginning.

. . . Obama sits down on one of the mesh chairs and launches into a spoken tour of his world of woes. It’s a mind-boggling journey, although he shows no signs of being boggled — unless you count the increasingly prevalent salt in his salt-and-pepper hair. By now we are all accustomed to that Obi-Wan Kenobi calm, though we may never entirely understand it. In a soothing monotone, he highlights the scariest hairpin turns on his itinerary, the ones that combine difficulty with danger plus a jolt of existential risk.

He’s right about one thing, we might not ever “understand” the demeanor of Barack Obama, and we know that no MSM reporter would ever have described the itinerary of his immediate predecessor as one that had “combine[d] difficulty with danger plus a jolt of existential risk.” The final item on his list of the stuff that keeps him up at night is — ta da! — Climate Change.

“And then the final thing, just to round out my Happy List, is climate change. All the indicators are that this is happening faster than even the most pessimistic scientists were anticipating a couple of years ago.”

Hook, line and sinker — bend over baby ’cause the big green wienie called tax, Tax, TAX is heading our way — all under the cover of saving the planet from Global Warming Climate Change. Keep that in mind as you watch all those folks freezing their short hairs off at the Inauguration.

It’s not like he doesn’t think highly of himself either. Check out his first two-year’s goals and ambitions:

Obama’s competence fills him with a genuine self-confidence. “I’ve got a pretty healthy ego,” he allows. That’s clear when he offers a checklist for voters to use in judging his performance two years from now. It’s quite an agenda. Listen: “Have we helped this economy recover from what is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? Have we instituted financial regulations and rules of the road that assure this kind of crisis doesn’t occur again? Have we created jobs that pay well and allow families to support themselves? Have we made significant progress on reducing the cost of health care and expanding coverage? Have we begun what will probably be a decade-long project to shift America to a new energy economy? Have we begun what may be an even longer project of revitalizing our public-school systems?”

There’s more: “Have we closed down Guantánamo in a responsible way, put a clear end to torture and restored a balance between the demands of our security and our Constitution? Have we rebuilt alliances around the world effectively? Have I drawn down U.S. troops out of Iraq, and have we strengthened our approach in Afghanistan — not just militarily but also diplomatically and in terms of development? And have we been able to reinvigorate international institutions to deal with transnational threats, like climate change, that we can’t solve on our own?”

And: “Outside of specific policy measures, two years from now, I want the American people to be able to say, ‘Government’s not perfect; there are some things Obama does that get on my nerves. But you know what? I feel like the government’s working for me. I feel like it’s accountable. I feel like it’s transparent. I feel that I am well informed about what government actions are being taken. I feel that this is a President and an Administration that admits when it makes mistakes and adapts itself to new information.’”

Can he really achieve all that?

There’s more — lot’s more, and I’ll let you go over there and consume as much as you can stomach. Von Drehle wraps it up with a bit o’ this:

Obama has made it clear that he knows how to write new playbooks and do things in new ways. Which is a compelling quality right now. His arrival on the scene feels like a step into the next century — his genome is global, his mind is innovative, his world is networked, and his spirit is democratic. Perhaps it takes a new face to see the promise in a future that now looks dark.

I’m figuring that the MSM will also expect him to walk on water and raise the dead. Considering what those who the real Messiah came to save did to him, if I was the Obamassiah, I’d sure watch my six . . .

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