President Obama reminds me of the wrestlers on RAW. They stand around with their ridiculous outfits on, muscles bulging with steroids (and probably an unrelenting self-hatred) and they talk shit about how they’re going to beat each other up. An entire episode of this show is composed primarily of banter, with a smattering of people actually trying to hurt each other (it’s a ruse of course, but that’s a comparison for another day). The biggest difference being that when John Cena FINALLY gets around to the date or time he said he was going to fight, he actually follows through.

For your entertainment, imagine there is a class full of very bright children, and you are their teacher. Imagine they all had to do a science fair project, and the one who did the best job would get a prize. Then imagine that on the due date, all the children, being that they’re very bright and studious, have a project ready. They’ve done their experiments and analyzed the results and cited outside resources, all of them, except for one. That one child, instead of having a physical experiment prepared, regales you with a speech about how he WILL do a project, and it will be way better than any of the other projects, which are inferior by nature of the fact they actually exist. He gives you lots of vague non-specific details on the subject, and convinces you with his beautiful speaking that he is absolutely right, and it doesn’t really matter that he hasn’t done the project. At this point you realize that at the time you decided to allow him to join the class he hadn’t done anything to earn that spot to speak of either. So you might as well give him the benefit of the doubt now right?

Rather than rewarding one of the individuals that actually did a fantastic experiment, or at least did the assignment at all, you are so distracted by this child’s speaking prowess and ideas that you give him the prize instead. On Wikipedia (gasp!) his list of accomplishments is quite simply what he’s managed to do with no list of accomplishments. The American people have gotten so caught up in everything he is supposed to do, not to mention the opportunity to be part of a “first black person to do something” story; we’ve forgotten to expect our politicians and public figures to act.

Our politicians are becoming celebrities. We no longer care about how they attempt to fix this debacle we call a Democracy. We’d rather be lied to about how it’s going to be better one day, and sit back and get high on the future. Pull your heads out of your asses America, hell mankind in general, and reward people that actually deserve it, not the ones that just sound like they deserve it.

If Obama does even a quarter of the stuff he says he’s going to do it would be pretty fantastic, and I have faith that he just might pull it off. But for God’s sake, we can’t give the man the science fair first prize before he’s even finished, let alone started, his project. As a friend of mine said “…apparently if you talk about something enough you can win a Nobel Peace Prize. Gore had Manbearpig and Obama has… umm… uhh… got elected… Special deal. One free Nobel Peace Prize with victory in Democratic Presidential Primary. Sorry Hillary maybe next time.”