Can We Please Stop With The Paranoia?

Okay. Let me ask the question that surely, surely someone else in the universe has asked her/him/itself ... has any other newly elected president of these United States ever had the day-to-day (and in some cases, hour-by-hour) scrutiny that this man has had? We hardly knew Dubbya was in town (and mostly, in truth, he wasn't, he was at the ranch, trying to do a crash course in Prez 101). Actually, we paid little attention to him until 9/11, and then we paid a LOT of attention, and we all saw different things. In fairness, he was exactly what Hollywood would have cast in the movie ... the quintessential John Wayne type, square jaw set, brow grim, who was surely going to save us. Uh. No. Hey, he's a cheerleader, but he ain't the sharpest tool in the war department box. In any event, to the original question, the answer is no. And since he simply assumed the second four, it was seamless anyway. And before him, who? Billy. Billy, who spent the first week schmoozing and getting everyone to love him, me included, Billy, who personifies the old Waylon Jennings lyric ... "ladies love outlaws like babies love stray dogs ..." And before that, George The Elder, who I could stand just barely more than his language challenged offspring ... so I, and half the country, ignored him, too, just keeping half and ear for Roe v. Wade conversations so we could be forewarned, because the Old Man was a drum beater, he was ...

So. Does no one else find it totally invasive and worst and prohibitive at best, to follow the man 24/7 and run a tote board in the news room of his To Do List, and then score his performance? We get less information that that about the two wars we are waging, and the two wars we would like to wage. You figure them out. Pick two. Any two. Hey, he's busy, let'm alone! He's only been there, what, 6 days???

I would like to make a cyber-plea to the intelligent, thinking, voting communities out there to take particular heed of what is going on here. Just who is checking on whom? And why has the media become the minute-by-minute machine that vomits all its detritis out there in living color and .... gawd .... HiDef, the technology that spares nothing, including pimples and nose hair.

L-E-T H-I-M B-R-E-A-T-H-E, for chrissakes. Give him room to stretch out and gain purchase before you all try and mow him down to size. Yes, that's what I said, because that's what about 20% of you think. The same 20% that still thinks Dubbya did a good job. The same 20% that are surely related to career (retired) military and colonials going back 300 years. Your people were slave owners, even if you don't know it. It's in your genes. You poor deluded souls, I hope you have guaranteed retirement, and are getting close. Otherwise, you're gonna be in the Down The Drain Club with the rest of us. Give him the credit he sorely deserves for even being able to function in this horrific economic environment, and he has made good decisions in good speed. And now we'll see just who have the biggest balls in Congress, won't we? And won't we be surprised? Maybe not. I'm still smiling about the reversal of the Executive Order against federal funding for birth control clinics, here AND in Europe, and making sure that the clinics that operate worldwide for the protection of women and their reproductive health, and thinking that I truly would walk into fire for this man. Glad that the young women of today (who no nothing of the horrors of my generation and before) will continue to have reproductive autonomy of their own bodies, and hard choices will at least be safe choices. Oh, that's another thing, but for another time. I'm too tired to take on the Fundies right now. Even anarchists have to sleep.

Blessed be.