[PBzeer]

Yes, Bambi certainly understands being popular, which is certainly a fine asset if you're Class President. Unfortunately, he's President of the United States, not Harvard. And while the Ship of State keeps taking on more and more water, he's worrying about buying new canvas and getting a bottom job done.

Leadership requires setting priorities and then acting on them. In two months he has made it abundantly clear that his number one priority is his political agenda, regardless of the costs or consequences. And while it is certainly a good thing to look to the future, it's pointless if you don't take care of the now so that there is a future.

If the furor over AIG has shown us anything, it's that it's "business as usual" in Washington. Or did you think the man who deliberately disabled the safeguards to prevent fraudulent donations to his campaign would be different once elected? And while he speaks, or more properly, reads, his outrage over millions in bonuses, not a word do we hear on the laundering of BILLIONS of those same dollars to other banks, both foreign and domestic. Even though many of those same US banks have already received billions from the government.

If there is one overriding function of the Federal Government in the Constitution, it is the defense of the country. Yet, to pay for his social policies which are not a part of any constitutional mandate, he proposes drastic cuts to the military. That's not change, that's the reincarnation of Jimmy Carter. Just as his "tax the rich" mantra is. The country wanted change then too, and boy did we get it.