Where's Obama? This is what a youngster said to first lady Michele Obama on the T.V. news cast. It was just so cute to see an obviously unrehearsed moment like that. A cute kid obviously just a bit disappointed that the president hadn't come along with his wife to visit his class.
I'm still getting used to having a president and first family who seem like real people, instead of just rich people trying (at times) to act like real people. President Obama actually said, "I screwed up." In eight years we never heard a similar admission from George W. Bush.
And how about those House Republicans? While three Senate Republicans managed to get several billion dollars of changes to the stimulus package in exchange for their votes, the entire Republican contingent in the House did the "Just say no" thing. Here in Wisconsin, I guess, we are used to having the Republicans be nothing more than obstructionists, but still!
There is a line in Dante's Inferno that I can't quite quote right, but it is something to the effect that the hottest circles of Hell are reserved for those folks who in time of great crisis did not do anything! Throw the bums out, I say. When the country is going to Hell in a hand basket, it is better to do something than to do nothing. I hope other voters remember this, I will!
I'm old enough to also remember "do something" Republicans in Wisconsin, such as Governor Warren Knowles and State Senator Walter John Chilsen. Though I often disagreed with him, Governor Tommy Thompson was also a doer. Who needs these folks who just know how to say no to everybody else's ideas, but have none of their own!
