Reality sucks.

“Barack W. Bush”! [I promise I didn’t come up with that.] I think our president has finally hit a brick wall in his policies of appeasement and perhaps he is finally learning (albeit not fast enough) that simply being “present” in the U.S. Senate and being a “community organizer” doesn’t equate to experience and that running a campaign on rhetoric is quite different than running the free world on policy and ethics. It is true that no person can know what the presidency holds before sitting behind that desk, but I think our president was woefully under prepared and even unrealistic about the demands on the office… because in the end it is the office, not the person, that is most important. Somewhere between writing the executive order to close Gitmo and deciding that we can’t release photos of alleged abuse or even admitting that there exists some people so bad that we may not be able to give them trials; Somewhere in the void between telling America that we’ll have unprecedented transparency and passing a 1000+ page $850B bill on 12 hours notice; Sometime from announcing that we’ll cut programs from the budget to pay for health care reform to considering taxing those that get health care from employers as income and proposing a $3.5T budget; Somehow while going from saying “Yes we can” and “lets look forward not back” to blaming the former presidency for a $1T deficit and “broken” foreign policy all the while tripling the deficit and privately continuing those policies (while publicly proselytizing to foreign leaders); Somewhere among all of these stupefying reversals and missteps… our president learned that reality can never match his rhetoric. Lets hope that realization reflects his future politics and that he doesn’t continue to spend us into oblivion, weaken our stature, and destroy our competitive ability around the world.