Aaaaah!! He's Only Human!!

Alright, so I've been watching the news a bit over the past few days, and I'm getting a bit annoyed at this whole "First Hundred Days" thing about Obama. Apparently, Obama s supposed to waltz into the Oval Office and in that enclosed space, perform some kind of alchemaic ritual that, within a hundred days of its institution, will rid the world of all its problems. At least, that's what the pundits seem to think.

Seriously?

Its a ludicrous idea. Honestly, did group of newsmen just sit down and say "Hey, we know the new president has the weight of the free world on his shoulders, so lets give the impression that he only has a hundred days to fix everything! Yeah! Lets make him feel anxious and rushed about his policies! What a great idea!" These same newsmen then went and hit themselves in the head with a hammer for 30 minutes straight while wailing the Oscar Meyer jingle.

For goodness sake, the man has over a thousand days in office to fix and perfect things. A thousand days. And we're expecting him to rework the economy, stabilize the job markets, bring two wars to their close, cut our dependence on foreign fuel, and capture that pesky Osama bin Laden in a hundred. Hell, most of us haven't accomplished anything really worthwhile in a hundred days, yet here we are waiting for Obama to march into Wall Street and cast the wicked moneylenders out of his Father's house. Seriously, what did you do the last hundred days? Make an A in chemistry? Roof your house? Try balancing a 13 trillion dollar budget and guiding the world's most powerful military through two separate wars. Then talk to me.

He's not Jesus guys. He's a newly elected wartime president, at a pretty shitty time in the nation's history. Believe me, I was up there with the Barack 'n Roll's and the Obamanos!'s, but that was just to get him elected. I knew he wasn't going to break down the door to Congress and shout "Alright motherfuckahs! Let's legislate!". It's not the easy. There's checks and balances, and a little thing called the Constitution he has to check with now and again. I know he's going to get it done. But you can't rush perfection.

So lets cut him some slack, ok? Ok.

On a completely unrelated note, I was working my lower body at the gym earlier today, and now it feels like someone took a flaming jackhammer to my calves. Seriously, its like I have fucking polio. When I'm walking up the stairs, I keep thinking "Wow, FDR had to go through this every single day. It must have sucked to be him. I mean, if he wasn't preseident and all. Cause that part was pretty sweet."

Just wanted to get that out there.

Johnny's in the basement, mixin up the medicine, I'm on the pavement, thinkin bout the government.