Obama Wins / Obama Loses

I'm tired of all of the professional pundits who are trying the score the twenty-five day old Obama administration like some sort of Olympic ice skating event. He won in the stimulus bill because he got almost $800 BILLION dollars passed by the House and Senate He lost with the stimulus bill because he didn't get everything he wanted. He was too bold. He was too timid.

BASTA! ENOUGH!

Even Roosevelt has 100 days to give some direction to the country when he took office. But our insane 24/7 cable news cycle requires instantaneous assessment of every administration twitch with a twitters tweet and a pundits palaver.

For the past few weeks I was tempted to join in the chorus of the chattering class with my own assessments, but each time I moved to the keyboard I found myself saying, "But he's only been there a week (or two weeks.. or three weeks)".

It will take time to turn around the economy and you must admit that his team has hit the ground running. Think of the chaos and confusion that reigned just weeks ago when W was still in charge. Now we have a President who can put together a cogent argument while 30 days a go we had someone in charge who stumbled over a simple sentence.

So try to relax, gang. This is not the end of the world. With time, money and effort things will get better. Promise.