What I meant was...

"Yes we can! But..."

That would have been a hell of a campaign slogan, huh? I also heard this morning through my pre-coffee fog things like, 'historic finance reform' and 'historic health care reform'. It seems that tacking the word 'historic' onto any bit of legislative malfeasance justifies it. It seems that this group of legislators is more concerned about being perceived as 'historic' than being good legislators. Two decades from now children will be sat in large auditoriums, row after row, clad in gray jumpsuit uniforms, while images of the members of this 'historic' congress and this 'historic' president are shown, accompanied by audio sound bytes from 'historic' speeches are boomed from the ether. Can't you just see the 'historic' black president and his 'historic' aging hippie Speaker, and the rest of the 'historic' anti-Capitalist ex-hippie culture Majority tucked safely in their beds while visions of accolades dance in their heads?

As disconnected as politicians are, in general, from the rest of the working world, and as evident as it always is that this is so, I cannot think of a time in my life that I have seen and heard such condescension from any one or group of Politicians. I could never have fathomed such an arrogant, self-indulgent, self-important, over-estimated 'leader of the free world'. His attempts to connect with the 'common folk' by peppering his unscripted speeches with pseudo-Ebonics and vulgar Pop and Hip-Hop Culture references is an embarrassment. Efforts at communicating his destructive and delusional ideals to The People have degraded to very thinly veiled suggestions that The People are simply too stupid to understand what he's trying to do. Obama gets frustrated and angry if you watch him when he is confronted with opposition of any kind. It is all he can do to remain diplomatic. In his defense, though, I will say that it is hard to be diplomatic when you have no logical arguments in defense of your ideals.

But then, if what you are doing is 'historic', it needs no logical defense. Does it?

The Holocaust is historic, Hiroshima is historic, The Depression is historic, Rome was historic, Hurricane Katrina was historic. The election of Barack Hussein Obama is historic...