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Though Obama was roundly cheered by the All-Star fans, his live presence still didn't attract the applause that George W. Bush did during a taped announcement by the four previous Presidents before the game and some boos could even be heard among the cheers.

America is waking up!! Now I can go to bed happy!

I watched the tape and I'm not so sure I would call the crowd's response anything but tepid. It's easy to forget that only slightly more than half the people who bothered to vote last year voted for this man. And of those, quite a few did so out of guilt, others because he is of the same race and yet others because it seemed like the thing to do. In other words, even those who voted for him in many cases have moved on to other concerns in their lives.

I suspect the election of BO is going to be a lesson that's learned by America at great expense. Sadly though, that's frequently what it takes for a lesson to be learned if at all.

There is absolutely nothing positive about the presidency of BO to this point other than it might have salved the conscience of a nation weary of being accused of racism despite having done more than any nation in history to correct a wrong.

I would have expected a much more rousing response from a crowd of baseball fans when the POTUS took the field. It would be instructive to compare his reception last night with that given GWB on his last appearance at an All Star game, given that by that time Dubya had been subjected to nearly a decade of demonizing.