Britney-Paris = Obama-Biden

If I knew that the media types were going to be this fawning over our soon to be President; I would have voted against him just so that I did not have to hear about how great he is. To listen to CNN et al. one would think that we were being given the opportunity to coronate some combination of Ghandi, Franklin Roosevelt, JFK, MLK and Abe Lincoln as the tyrant du jour. We are told in breathless tones that he slept a couple of nights at the Hay-Adams Hotel since there was no room at the Blair House. That his kids will go to private school somewhere. That his dog has been picked out and a host of other useless stuff. It is the same type of sludge that is trotted out about Britney and Paris. Should the news media stoop to level the playing field between the President and Paris? Especially JFKMLKGhandiRooseveltLincoln? Initially I said no. Certainly in a culture that was healthy at all, a President would be held at a higher level. At least Mr Obama with his impending canonization would be. Then I began to think about what this said about our culture. This is a culture that has T-Shirts with the "score" of the victory in the form of electoral votes emblazoned on them. I guess that the presidential election has taken on the same importance as the annual Georgia-Georgia Tech clash. My guess is that our actions speak what we will not ever say. Namely, that Obama's election was about as important as the aforementioned football game.

Will there be a substantive difference between Obama and George Bush? I doubt it. The master of change has presented us with a cabinet of Washington insiders. He has asked the current President to pass out the other $350B for TARP which was passed with the support of Bush/McCain/Obama/Clinton. The apparent central component to his "novel" economic plan is a grotesque orgy of public spending. He is going to change the primary front of the War from Iraq to Afghanistan something so much in the works by the previous administration that the Iraq SOFA approved before Mr Obama takes office has all combat troops out of Iraqi cities by June 2009. What in the above is the difference between Obama and Republicans? I can't see anything other than which drunken crew gets to say "We're NUMBER ONE!" Sounds like our culture has been apropos in signaling that the latest about Britney and Paris is eqivalent to the latest about Obama.