First two weeks of Obamadammerung...NOT Auspicious

Well, it's been the first two weeks of the trans-racial, post-partisan, yes-we-can-have-hope-and-change administration of the Great Messiah/Uniter.

So, how's it gone?

Just peachy.

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  [*]Cabinet Appointments -- We have an attorney general who orchestrated the pardon of unrepentant terrorists and and FBI 10-most-wanted-fugitive-from-justice; a Treasury Secretary who was a tax cheat; the first appointment of Commerce Secretary withdrawn because of dubious dealings; and his H&HS secretary nominee also apparently a tax cheat.
  
  
  [*]Press relations -- apparently, the administration is quite perturbed that the press is asking, you know, real questions, instead of writing homo-erotically tinged stories about Obambi's physique or how he just tingles their legs. And have you heard the press briefings from the bumbling cotton-mouthed Robert Gibbs? Good god...makes you want to bring Scott McClellan back.
  
  
  [*]Stimulus Package -- Yeah, THIS has gone over well. Pork-laden and bloated with uncontrolled non-stimulative spending on suitably "progressive" policy notions, it's a fiscal trainwreck. All being helped, of course, by that brain-dead Democratic leader and mother of five, Nancy Pelosi, trying to "argue" that giving money to the states for contraception programs REALLY does help the economy because, you know, having more children is really a drag on the economy.
  
  
• Gitmo -- Oh, sure, he's signed the executive order to close it -- a gesture that surely warmed the hearts of the Amerika-is-a-bad-bad-bad-torturer-of-poor-poor-Muslims crowd. However, this one brings new meaning to the phrase "moving the goal posts." The promise of closing it within 100 days first morphed into "by the end of the year," and then, alas, the admission that, well, getting it done by the end of the 1st term would be considered a "success." And assuming you CAN try them -- perpetually problematic, since the 10th Mountain Division and other battle formations tend to be a little light on issuing Miranda warnings on the battlefield and, you know, we did really have to interrogate them -- where to put these poor rights-denied Muslims? Leavenworth? The max security prison in Colorado? Sure, let's put them in Colorado, that's a place that's MORE sensory depriving and stark that Gitmo. Perfect.
  
  
  [*]Foreign Policy -- Not much has happened on that front. Oh, wait -- the law firm of his special Middle East envoy has done special work for an rich Arab who was linked to a child kidnapping scheme. And then the Great Messiah has his first major press interview with an Arab news network. That will make them love us in the Middle East right? Yep, the Iranian power structure really love the idea of us talking to them. Their response? The Great Uniter's offer to talk shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed. "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," said a really impressed Iranian government spokesman (who, unlike Robert Gibbs, doesn't stumble over his words).

Hope and change! Ya gotta love it.