Give the man a chance before you hate him

Enough already.
I've received more emails from the Obama haters than I want to talk about. People are already doggin' him out and the man isn't even in office. Even one of my favourite gossip columnists took an email from someone who asked why Obama hasn't done more to help the American people since he was elected. The gossip columnist said simply we should maybe wait until he actually took office before we started judging him.
A lot of the same people who are sending me anti Obama email are the same people who kept saying that there were WMDs to be found in Iraq. Yeah, listen, I found a pretty big WMD last week in my son's training diapers and no one from the Bush administration came to visit us. It's amazing that the Barack Obama hadn't even been in DC yet to settle his girls down to school and people were ready to say he was going to fail because this whole financial failure of the automotive industry and the financial sector and everything else wouldn't be salvagable easily. And that for some reason, we who believe that Obama might be able to change the way things are now are naive and believe this will happen in six weeks.
Sure, the believers are naive. We want to believe in a president that doesn't seem to have ties to big oil. Who didn't weasel out of military service when he was young but was willing to start a war to finish what his Daddy started way back when and put our youngsters on the line for a war about...what was it again? Who doesn't have a VP who threw contracts at his former company to rebuild two countries but at a ridiculous expense. By the way, Afghanistan is all perfect right? We got them all settled and running well with jobs, education for all and land that they can grow their own food on, right? Oh yeah. No.
Barack Obama has a huge mountain he's facing. When he started campaigning two years ago, he was facing the fact that we were in an endless loop of the war in Iraq. "Mission not accomplished." Both Afghanistan and Iraq are countries in turmoil. They cannot get on their feet for various reasons whether it's insurgents who are fighting the infidels who want to destroy Islam or because you have a bunch of tribes or factions of Islam who think the other guy is out to destroy them. There is limited or no infrustructure in either country. And what we send in the form of Halliburton is not helping. It's like asking Paris Hilton to build a grid for a country's energy. You know you are asking an awful lot for a someone who wants more money than they deserve.
No, naysayers, we do NOT expect Barack Obama to make this boo boo all better in a month. Or two. As he was elected, the financial world in the US was melting faster than a snowman in Vegas in July. It went from being a five pound bag of shit to a 25 pound bag of shit in a few short weeks. The realization of what he is facing is obvious because you can see his hair is already getting the requisite Presidential Stress Grey. I think that the vast majority of us knew before Obama took the stage back in November to say that this would take not one but two terms to possibly get us back on our feet again that was the case.
And for those of ou who are snidely saying that 'someone' owns Obama, let me just say this: someone owns all of us. Or something. For the chain smoking racist who is sure that a black man cannot rule because he is owned by someone, I want to tell him that he is owned by the tobacco company because he cannot stop sucking on those cancer sticks (even though he claims tobacco does not give you cancer since he doesn't have it). For the white Christian senior who sends me those emails stating that the government will raise our taxes to pay for things since it's all Democrats, I have to ask you something: where the freak do you think the money is going to come from to pay for the billions that are being thrown at the auto makers and to the financial sector? (Same goes for those moaning here in Cali about how schools are getting screwed and how this and that are getting screwed - bend over and accept that new sales tax or having our property taxes go up a couple of percent.) Do you seriously think that the money fairy is going to come along and make it all better?
Give the man a year to get a feel for the reins. He's got a lot to do and it's going to take awhile. Stop saying he'll fail. You don't seriously think that the arm candy of the Budweiser heiress and his Fargo-esque running mate were going to make this all disappear overnight either do you?