To the Left, to the Left

It all goes to show that you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. That and that most things are a matter of perspective.

Who cares what people call Obama? As long as it's clean and doesn't contain any threats or vulgarities, then it's all good. He's a politician and is in the public eye, so he probably has the hide of a rhino. Even so, I wouldn't want to be too happy if someone called me leftwing. And I would probably sue for defamation of character.

The bottom line is that our dearly beloved president made promises and campaign pledges that he couldn't possibly have kept. Not only because he is a politician and his pie-in-the sky exuberance but because he was about as inexperienced as they come. While it is true that he has signed more bills than most any president, the jury is still out on the impact that he will have on this country.

He promised to create jobs and that has failed, but the economy was so depleted from the collapsed housing market that even the love child of Donald Trump and Warren Buffet couldn't have possibly pulled off a revival.

Jonathan has goofed about the wars, though. While I don't want to see more people die, Iraq and Afghanistan are one of those pick your poison deals where we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. The gaffe we made is that we leapt across cultural bounds assuming that we could whitewash theirs clean with ours. That was our mistake. We should have taken the time to get to know who we were dealing with. In his biography, "the Eternal Male," Omar Shariff makes the case when he writes about their distrust of foreigners and interlopers, which is what we are.

Probably no one could have pulled it off, least of all a freshman senator from Illinois and his wife, Marie, let's vacation in Spain, Antoinette.