A lot of kerfuffles are shown to be nothing in retrospect.
Then again, a lot of things that are actually quite significant aren’t remembered later because other kerfuffles take their place. I went back and read what I had written last June, regarding Obama’s first six months in office. I didn’t remember most of that stuff, even though it was pretty major.
I gave up trying to keep track after 6 months, but you might want to check how much of it you remember. http://www.veritasbelt.blogspot.com (It’s my sister’s blog but she let me post there last year)
The admonition to keep perspective is well-taken. But especially in the context of all the cram-it-down-our-throats changes that Obama has crammed into his first year in office, I think a lot of people realize that something different is going on now than in past years. What’s going on now, for instance, makes Watergate look like tiny burps.
“I think a lot of people realize that something different is going on now than in past years.”
Ooooh yeah. It boggles my mind some days. I have wondered if this is what it must be like to be caught in an avalanche. So much happening around you that you just can’t get a good hold on the totality of it all.
The Czars, the porkulus, cash for clunkers, spitting in Britain’s face (repeatedly), kowtowing to despots while pissing on allies (contrast the treatment of Honduras and Colombia with the treatment of Venezuela), Cap & Trade, the nationalization of health care the endless Obamateurisms ( check out: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/26/obamateurism-of-the-day-218/ ). And that’s just scratching the surface. The list nears endless and we’re only 1/4 of the way through his term...
The focus on perceived irregularities with his vital records or novel interpretations of law regarding what was public knowledge before the election strikes me as like a guy getting pulled over for driving through a school zone at 100 MPH with no brakes and bald tires, the driver stinks of booze, is waving a gun around and has a body in the trunk. But the onlookers want to argue as to whether or not an intermittent taillight meets the legal definition of a broken taillight.
Then those who are more concerned with the dead body in the trunk rather than the taillight get accused of not supporting traffic laws….