Here we are, all of seven days into the administration of President Barack Obama (and isn't it wonderful being able to put those three words together?), and I'm having trouble keeping up with it all. The end of Guantanamo. The end of torture. The end of the global gag rule. Allowing states to put tougher auto emission standards in place. At this pace, we may be out of things for them to do by the end of Obama's first 100 days.
OK, well...let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Seven days of leadership and competence cannot and will not erase eight years of incompetence and criminal ineptitude. While Obama hasn't come out and explicitly condemned the policies of the Reign of Error ©, his actions speak volumes. It would appear that "Change" was no mere empty campaign promise, and the dizzying pace of that change is intoxicating. Things are beginning to look very, very different in Washington, and it's like watching the sun rise after a very long and dark night. If the first week can represent such a clear repudiation of the previous (sorry excuse for a) President, I can't help but wonder what things will look at the end of the first month...or six months. After so much incompetence, criminality, and ideological thuggery justified by a twisted view of Christianity, it's difficult to wrap my head around a President who actually means what he says and says what he means. Wow...a President who speaks in complete sentences and understands what being a leader means. I'm not normally one to steal phrases from Ronald Reagan, but it really is beginning to feel like Morning in America ©.
Pretty cool, huh?? ;-)
