Money quote from the comments section --
I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, and knew of Barack Obama long before he came on the national scene. He was a typical Chicago Democrat, a thriving member of the most corrupt political organization in America. His 150 "present" votes in the Illinois legislature showed that he was not a man who took difficult, principled stands. He had the reputation of being a thin-skinned narcissist. And the fact that he had run nothing in his life, not so much as a hot-dog stand, did not bode well for his ability to act as chief executive of the largest single enterprise on the planet, the federal government of the United States. In his desire to be elected, he made impossible promises, such as making the oceans recede, which his acolytes swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
So now we have as president a thin-skinned, unprincipled, corrupt, inexperienced narcissist who is proving unable to fulfill his impossible promises. And people are surprised.
As for Obama versus Dubya, Bush was a disaster in many ways. But on Saturday, he and his wife quietly visited Fort Hood, which is about 30 miles from his home, and without fanfare met with soldiers and their families. Obama, meanwhile, relaxed at Camp David. Enough said.
