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Whether you like Obama or not, you can't deny that he's the most accessible, ominpresent president in history. My God, how will he last four years at this rate? He's running himself ragged, functioning as our leader, coach, father, minister, cheerleader, counselor, brother, prom date, civics teacher and friend. He's Charles Atlas, holding the world up with his tongue and heart.
I think we've heard more from Obama in two months than from his predecessor in eight years. Could anyone work harder? Now that's a good thing for me. Maybe not for you. What do you think?
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I think it was the radio show This American Life that had a producer come on and say that the staff of the show had discussed it and as a nation we should allow Obama to keep on smoking.... really he needs something that is a vice, that is a stress reliever...... I have to say also that I think one of the reasons he is the right man for the job is that he is young, that he has energy and that he's grow up and worked in the world where multi tasking and doing the job of three people has been the norm.
I've been thinking the same thing. I don't know where he gets the energy. I feel guilty that I don't even have the energy to keep up with him on the news. More than once as he's plowed deeper into these first 100 days I thought to myself that I'd be ready to hang it up and tell everybody that this whole meshugena set of issues is way more than I'd bargained for. I've never seen such a wild set of domestic and international circumstances in my life. All I can say is that I'm glad he's the man in the oval office. I don't know how he's doing it, but I trust him.
...I'm with Iren and NPR too. As a reformed long time smoker, I say he's got to be jonesing all the time. Let the guy smoke if he wants to!
Smoking ain't illegal so whether he does or doesn't is between him and his family.
I admire the man tremendously. Whether or not everyone agrees with his politics (and I tend to), give the man kudos for the way he has dived in to the enormous workload and has taken responsibility for things that have gone wrong. And I'm so proud to have an individual of obvious intelligence and heart in the Oval Office.
I also want to throw out there my minimal cost economic stimulus idea for the president… he should start wearing formal hats. Follow me on this, Kennedy killed the hat for men, and since that time Fedoras, Bollers and what not have become less and less part of the apparel of men in the work place, going out for a fancy dinner or what ever. A whole business faded away by in large. Now if our very dapper and stylish president was to start wearing hats in the way that FDR, TR and Truman did he could revive a seeming lost industry…. And it would be just right for him, as one of the only places that men still wear such hats is in the African American community. How great would it be to start seeing men wearing stylish and formal hats in public on a regular basis?
As a twenty-year smoker, I'm not sure it relieves stress. I'd go for the xanax and booze. He's looking a bit older everyday though, isn't he. Much like the new father who can't get enough sleep and worries the baby ain't quite right and is not what he was promised.
As long as I don't have to wear a hat, I'll go for it too. He could pull it off.
Let's see where all the hard work gets him. It's results that count, but at least he's trying hard. When does he get a month's vacation at his ranch?
A few fewer Town Meetings, a few more repeals of Patriot Act legislation, a few fewer conservative Democratic hacks in the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions, and I'll be a bit more sanguine.
And no pardons for Bush Admin folks who are convicted. If any.
Honestly? Obama reminds me of former Prime Minister Blair a little too much, In that Blair radicalized/reinvigorated his party, won a landslide general election and then slowly made more and more disastrous decisions the longer he remained in office. (there are those, of course, who argue that he jettisoned his morality long before he ever got within site on downing street.)
Don’t get me wrong, I want to trust in the office of the presidency. (It does, after all, have no small effect upon my life here In Britain) but my experience of national leaders across my lifetime has always tended to be of the ‘and if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you’ variety.
I hope I’m wrong, I want to be wrong, but I suspect that corruption finds us all, in the end.
I like that Obama seems more accessible than the last President. It makes him more "common" and in touch.
One stress reliever I've seen is his participation in March Madness, making his own predictions on the college basketball tournament like so mnay other Americans.
I am an eternal pessimist but I feel that he has good intentions, he's very smart, he's working hard and he's not George Bush. Blair, huh? I'll have to think about that one. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
He's certainly the most energetic president we've had in a long time. I hope he can keep up the pace, too. It helps that he's younger, though he'd graying fast!
I love how Obama was filling out his Final Four bracket on ESPN. The reporter asked if he saw a particular game and he replied, "I saw the highlights the next morning. I can't stay up until 2 AM, I have a job to do."
My sole complaint with him so far is the fact that he's dyeing his hair, though I imagine that it was related to the Leno appearance.
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