Last night, President Obama told the world he was taking over where Dubya left off and was becoming the new War Prezzy.


We cannot help but be disappointed in Obama’s lack of courage to stand against the niggling Right Wing and stand down in the Middle East — but we also understand Obama has always been infatuated with Afghanistan and that he even promised during the election that he’d finish there what had been started before…

We are aware Obama must remain strong and neutral — neutered, really — if he hopes to get any real work done in a second term when he will answer to no one and can finally fix the world.

We worry, however, that these early missteps — spying on us, healthcare and Guantanamo — may be mortally wounding any chance he has of re-election by wholly alienating his base and firing up his haters to a point that he has split the difference too often to meet the middling middle.

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  1. Kathakali Chatterjee – Hyderabad, India – Professionally, I have an interesting concoction of experience -- from entertainment industry to retailing to executive education -- the journey is still on. When I don't work, I love to travel, read, listen to music and watch movies.
    kathakali.chatterjee says:

    Hi David,
    It’s interesting to watch the whole world mocking Obama for an “exaggerated bow” while meeting the Japanese emperor which was interpreted as a way of proving himself different than other American presidents.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1228039/Obama-branded-Groveller-Chief-exaggerated-bow-Japans-Emperor-Akihito-son-ruler-authorised-Pearl-Harbour-attack.html
    It left me wandering whether he truly did it as a gesture of courtesy or wanted to just impress the country he was visiting…
    I just hope he remembers his objective of creating a different, new world as well as his courtesy in future…

  2. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    Gordon Davidescu says:

    I am eager to see how President Obama winds down this war — with the capture of bin Laden? I am also really hoping the healthcare bill will go through with a public option. That’s the entire reason my mother voted for him 🙂

  3. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    Definitely strange.

  4. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    I, too, hope Obama’s secret plan is to do the surge and then declare victory and head for home, Gordon. I don’t think that will happen, though. When he’s done in Afghanistan, he’ll just reshuffle the troops to other places in the Middle East because he’ll be too terrified of the Right Wing to not have some kind of heavy force ready to strike down any thought of terrorism.
    I, too, hope for a public option — but I am not hopeful it will happen — merely because it would be a big, massive, win for Obama and the Republicans cannot allow that to happen.

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