Freaking them out

Obama is freaking them out. The novelty of the first black President refuses to wear off. The legislators, politicians and bureaucrats were all waiting for election to be over and going back to business as usual. It is more than 100 days but Obama is still freaking them out. He refuses to relinquish the bully pulpit to anyone.

Rush Limbaugh has been doing clownish flips in order to seek attention and got so exasperated that he decided to court a forced sale of his condo in New York. McCain was so mesmerized that he could not bark a better question than about cancellation of presidential helicopter deal when we are embroiled in a life and death economic struggle. Republicans are still in a treacherous market shopping for someone to hang their coat on. Republican governors have been swallowing their own words while begging for federal aid to meet their deficits. Bobby Jindal tried and badly stumbled on national TV. Sarah Palin is reeling under the weight of her daughter’s indiscretions. Listening tours and teaching tours are touted for a Republican revival. No traction yet. Pelosi, Geithner, Gingrich, Romney, Steel and many more have been sidelined. No scandal, no war, no crisis, no tragedy or dog purchase has escaped Obama’s pulpit. Legislators from both parties and media and media hogs are at their wits end.

Obama has completely obliterated their faces and TV time.Obama has not only seized the bully pulpit with FDR type vengeance. He wrings somebody’s neck every time he is on it. He has choked all oxygen to his opponents.

Not a day passes when Obama is not pontificating to the country and world. He does what FDR used to do every day. Does something and goes whole hog. If it fails apologizes profusely for it and starts doing something else. Like FDR he is always doing something. Obama has surrounded himself with a lot of experts and is always showing them off. He is freaking out all his opponents by this daily parade.
Not content with occupying national stage, Obama in the midst of this plastered Europe with his press conferences and hobnobbing with Sarkozy. Brown in UK, Merkel of Germany and Medvedev are smiling widely because Bush had made them cry. Africans and Asians are more hopeful

Not content with shutting out his opponents from all kinds of broadcast time, Obama regularly sends Giethner to bore listeners with his plans. Hillary is on conquering new countries which were out of bounds for Bushies. Janet Napolitano is not afraid to talk border and immigration. Healthcare is on the agenda and everybody is talking about it. Economy is Summer’s hands and looking up.

In the mix is Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden, her biceps and dresses from J Crew, Jewish lunches, the buying a dog and concerts.

No wonder Glen Beck is crying, Haley Barbour is crying foul and complaining that Obama is on a constant election campaign. O’Reilly is panting with a lot of irrelevant cultural issues. His hackneyed themes of Socialism, Marxism, abortion, gay rights and national security are back and no one is paying any attention to it.
It is Obama all the way. And everyone is freaked out.