Hard Choices...already

Hard choices  seem to be everywhere the Obama Administration seems willing to accept a baptism in firestorms created by many previous years of horribly mistaken priorities.  So infrastructure and the bailout frenzy will carry some of the benefits of Obama policy into the economy, the war in Iraq will play itself down on a separate stage, for the next year it will not receive much CHANGE, the economy is the key..and an administration can be tied to failure if it does not appear to grapple with the problem and make some progress.

Energy will be another important area, oil prices will be forced to rise as much as the damaged economies of the West can bear, a potential that progress from the recession will be consumed by rising oil prices, diplomacy is a key ingredient in the need to hold down the habit of gouging the market...difficult since so many national economies depend upon the price and value of oil.

But the stage has been set, the new administration has become a world focus of hope for change...an honest and friendly desire for success, for it is plain now to so many...what a difference leadership can make.

Cabinets...

Cabinet maker choose fine wood for their craft, then work it until smooth and appealing to the eyes.  The design is for the eye but also for the utility of the thing.  Cabinets that don't serve a purpose well wind up on the scrap heap of things...grown useless and replaced by more functional models.

The real President,  Pres.- elect Obama seems to have learned his craft well.  A very deliberate design so far but one aimed to carry the weight of the heavy work ahead.  A nation has become accustomed to the Presidency as a place where progress stops.  Six years ago, General Motors introduced a hydrogen powered car, put a gas pump at 2nd and Mass. Ave near the Senate Office Buildings for the fleet of cars to be fueled by the Congress Members who were given these prototype cars.  They looked like a dream come true...roomy and full powered vehicles running on Hydrogen gas...the most abundant element in the universe.. maybe...but certainly cheap and pretty much everywhere...it's molecules are in every drop of water by the millions...but Republican Party theology said to put the hydrogen car off until the Gasoline boys were ready to set up a supply chain...we would look at it again in fifteen years... and yesterday, hat in hand...fresh from making millions of gas guzzling SUV and trucks, thousands of dreamy car ads for ridiculously low mile per gallon vehicles...fresh off their fleet of private corporate jets...asking the Republicans in Congress and the White House to give 50 Billion or so to keep the companies afloat... hmmm i would say...maybe you should have built that hydrogen car, at least we'd have a reason to hope that American automakers  are at least considering the welfare of their workers, suppliers, customers, and the whole air breathing world out there... AMAZING...

So as the real President plans a Cabinet for a real government, the old phonies keep making real problems....

President Obama...
has a nice ring to it, here he will often be known as Mr. President when I am feeling respectful...Bara-ocky when the mood calls for humor or A - dri- enne!!!...and speaking of smiles, there are these odd looks on faces these days...mention the word President and so many people start to smile...a remarkable phenomenon...hero worship of a politician; little boy..don't you want to grow up to be smart like the President?...been a while since i heard that...since i was a boy...[and your gasoline was still alive breathing walkin' around bitin' stuff]

A leader that makes us anticipate tomorrow with a sense of positive expectation. Confidence is a big part of things..on the day after the terror attacks people turned to President Bush with adoration and respect...he wore that out in no time with a war for the convenience of his friends while the real bad guys are still on the loose...remember the colors of fear...chartreuse alert...hide the small children and savings bonds!!!
President Obama you have an act to follow, and no matter what you do from now on..you have already exceeded the productivity if the Bush second term...you made America smile...with pride...Thank you!!!