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Big First Year Leaves Obama Tired.... listless, irritable.

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Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-29 16:06|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl...violins...center of her own attention
The mother reads aloud child tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud

The shades go down it's in her head
Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...

Don't call me daughter not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me...

Posted by Beavis 2009-12-29 19:02|| 2009-12-29 19:02|| Front Page Top

#2 He asked for it, he got it. My sympathy meter doesn't even twitch.

Posted by tipover 2009-12-29 19:33|| 2009-12-29 19:33|| Front Page Top

#3 He can always resign.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-29 19:53|| 2009-12-29 19:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Big First Year Leaves Obama Tired.... listless, irritable.

The usual prescription would be a laxative and healthy purge with a diet full of fiber rather than fluffy and nebulous empty calorie consumptions and emissions of gas.

Posted by P2k on vacation 2009-12-29 20:18|| 2009-12-29 20:18|| Front Page Top

#5 He isn't going to finish his first term, just my prediction.

Posted by Ebbaiger Borgia1315 2009-12-29 20:20|| 2009-12-29 20:20|| Front Page Top

#6 thats intriguiging. Why EB1315?

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-12-29 20:21|| 2009-12-29 20:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Running low on nose candy?

Posted by Iblis 2009-12-29 20:33|| 2009-12-29 20:33|| Front Page Top

#8 More likely carrying a real job for the first time in his life and overwhelmed.

Posted by lotp 2009-12-29 21:02|| 2009-12-29 21:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Tired.... listless,irritable. Smoking more and enjoying it less.

Posted by notascrename 2009-12-29 23:17|| 2009-12-29 23:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Now we know why every man who steps into that office comes in like a bright shiny penny and leaves office looking like a bag of freshly hammered dogcrap.

That job,that nearly holy office of this Republic is the one branch of government held by a single individual and as such, it is damn hard.
What's worse is that its purposely designed by the founders of the Constitution, not to work. Its almost a cruel joke that we play on the biggest "alpha males" of our civilization; we lure them in with a promise of power and then we tie them down in a sort of life sized "Chinese finger trap" where every move is countered by a move of equal size from the other sources of power in the government.

Most of the men who occupy the office run for the job in the strongly held personal hope of "doing something" to leave their mark on history and yet in almost every memoir of an ex-president, you see that most of them leave deeply humbled and happy to have simply survived the experience.

I believe that the current occupant of the Office is rapidly coming to that realization; that while it is "good to be the king", the Presidency of the United States is not King, nor even a Prime Minister, he's just the President, He's just 1/3 of a Governmental system designed at the start and with deliberation, not to work.

Over the years I have sometimes found that the man we as citizens elect to the job is not always someone I like or agree with, but in every case I have and will continue to have, a profound and deep respect for whomever holds it. I would also take this moment to remind you that "like" and "respect" are two very different things.

And I may also take a moment to say that I am not a religious man by any means, but I have often found myself in deep contemplative prayer for the poor bastard that holds that job, not always for him and his agenda, but always for us in this Republic.

For he is after all is said and done:

"Our President"( The poor bastard...)

and we are not "His Citizens"; but his "fellow Americans" and may it ever always be so.

Never forget that it is our job as citizens to keep the men who hold that office honest; but let us also never forget that the man in the office is at the end of the day, just a man. Let us hope that all men who hold that office also know that is the case.

Posted by frank martin 2009-12-29 23:21|| www.varifrank.com 2009-12-29 23:21|| Front Page Top

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