I walked into the boss’s office the other day. We both see eye to eye politically and spend a fair share of time in the same echo chamber, so our biases are evident. But we still both has to shrug our shoulders because while there’s trouble brewing (again) in Iran, a war going on in Afghanistan, a health care debate going on that the President likes to use the politics of fear with saying that people are going to die if his bill isn’t passed, and an economy that’s still in the crapper…yet the President is going to Brussels just to argue for Chicago to get the Olympics in 2016. Really Sparky?
As a side, imagine the news outrage if George Bush did the same to bring the Olympics to Houston. Just saying.
The President seems to not like to stay home and/or go to work, or at least make it look like it which is just as important. Now, admitting that I spend a fair share of time in the echo chamber, I have been known not to be fair, but even cats from his own side of the aisle are starting to call him out on it. Richard Cohen, the floor is yours…
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Sarah Palin’s memoirs come out in November entitled, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” which will be awesomely awesome because we’ll be able to kick of the 2010 campaign season with a Palin inspired media frenzy, especially the parts of the book that, “…describe Ms. Palin’s frustration over her treatment by the staffers she inherited from the McCain campaign after her surprise pick as the GOP vice presidential nominee last year.”
This will drive some folks in the blogosphere nuts.
I don’t buy it.
