I don't envy anyone who takes the job of POTUS. Campaigns are fun. You get to talk to a lot of people. You get to give rousing oratory to adoring crowds. It's a race and a game and people like races and games. Especially when you win and they like you, they really really like you.
Governing is difficult and boring. You sit in meetings all day and have to make difficult decisions you have to sell to the media and the public at large. You have negotiate with other self-interested people to get things done. You have to manage conflicts within your own staff and Administration. I certainly hope Obama is up for it.
Obama has a big imagination, and his vision of the world is (naively) gigantic. But the world of the White House is tiny. Read Haldeman's diaries or other inside accounts to discover just how stifling and claustrophobic it is. Obama wears his trademark relaxed smile now. By 2012 he will be all gray and look like he went 8 rounds with La Hoya, beaten down by the job.
Riiiight. Hussein has "manager" written all over his resume.
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Why would you hope Oboomba is up for it? I hope he fails miserably from day one along with the other Clinton leftovers he has brought into his administration. The only way America will ever recant & turn back its' experimentation with marxist-socialism as well as throwing Oboomba out of office in 2012, is to experience first hand the devastating effects of socialism -- massive economic failure, govt ineptitude, mindless bureaucracies, massive corruption and inefficiencies at every level.
Anything less than massive failure at every level will be covered & glossed over by the fawning drive-by-media, hoping to score another one for Oboomba in 2012.