Sometimes you feel like a nut...and sometimes, just like a politician!

Here it is, the first blog about our beloved president that is not as appreciative as the others I have written.

Negative, I will not call it; rather, it is a realistic and practical comment/observation: Mr. President, stop it now or else you will undermine your entire mission for making our nation better, faster, stronger, able to leap tall buildings...."we can rebuild him..." (dew-dew-dew-dew--that was the noise you heard when Major Steve Austin was looking with his bionic eye).

I never liked Biden. I still don't. Taking the train all of those years to work in Congress was cool. His mother seems nice enough. He was like a little boy with a new bike on Inauguration Day: smiling, shaking hands, greeting everyone including a few squirrels on the White House lawn that very special day not too long ago.

Our hearts were filled with joy and expectation. Despite Biden's blind support of MBNA--housed in his home state--while they commenced their aggressive lending which got so many Americans (who believed that they too were wealthy and deserved to consume beyond their means because it was the "American thing to do") into trouble, debt and then bankruptcy, he was chosen to be the "saviour's" VP.

Then we had some cat (name escapes me) over at the Pentagon, who although a lobbyist just last year, was being chosen for a position because "he was the best man for the job (to paraphrase)." Then along came Geithner and despite having not paid some taxes, he was offered a nice job in the Administration; and, he even brought along a friend who had recently lobbied (Mark Patterson); now, we have Daschle, who I like as much as Biden, and he too is as described by the president as "the right people for important jobs."

I don't doubt that they are probably right but I sincerely doubt that among the 10,000's of CVs, there was no one with the credentials of a Barack Obama--clean, new, fresh, honest. I, for one, would gladly go and do the work that Geithner is being charged to do; I probably couldn't do any worse than he has already done (although, I do like his approach from what I have seen).

The republicans want Barack to be clean and pure and bipartisan simply because, in their weakened state, it will permit them to prevent him from tilting our teetering nation back onto is axis. They would prefer him to fail or stagnate so that they can reclaim much of their lost power; afterall, it is about them and not us. America is not our nation but their job; and, unless our president can refocus on the marvelous vision he painted in such Magritte-esque strokes on that day so, so long ago, they will finally accomplish the job commenced by W. (God, it's so nice knowing that he is safely tucked away in Texas emailing friends not in power any more), Mr. Potter and the other neo-cons.

Governing is not easy. Swimming also is not easy when amongst sharks. Washington is a shark-infested sea and our president is in danger already. He will succeed but at what cost? Will victory result in us having lost our last, great, coffee-with-cream hope?