IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY at
the great ball of burden on Obama’s back, you may discern the global
energy problem; the global climate problem; the global arms trade
problem; the global drug trade problem, the global security of nations
problem, the global weapons of mass destruction problem; the global
problem of infectious disease; the problem of global hunger and
poverty.
Closer to home, you will notice our health
care reform problem; the two-wars-and-counting problem, followed
closely by the war funding problem and the deficit problem and the
financial regulatory problem; the financial war on the middle class
problem; the unemployment problem; the immigration problem; the great
culture war problem; the gays are not asked and they do not tell
problem.
There’s also the growing problem of secular vs religion vs
insane religion, and not last and not least, the plight of our
poor problem. What’s worse, each of these enumerated problems is
merely shorthand for a variety of additional problems that cause, or
flow from the central nexus of each of them.
So many problems, and at a time
with increasingly fewer backs on which to lay the blame for them, even
before they can be solved. In America, it’s fashionable to place blame
on only one particular back— in this case, a spiney collection of
fortitude and faith that can ultimately seem liable to carry the blame
for all our “back” problems: the backside of our current president,
Barack Obama.
Is Barack Obama a Titan? No, he is a man. Perhaps, he is one of the brightest men to be a US president in the last century. But a man can carry the whole world on his shoulders for only so long.
source: http://www.urantiansojourn.com/2010/01/obama-shrugged/
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