Now that the ship is sinking, all hands on deck!

It is just unbelievable listening to the syphocant media and every-day Obama supporters carry on about the problems that Obama is inheriting and how we now have to rally around the president.

First of all, now is the time to rally around the president? This sounds to me like the media saying "let's rally around the president now that our guy is in power." Now is the time to be patriotic and sacrafice and give spread the wealth around? So we should give him more than the 15 minutes of "rallying around" we gave Bush?

Secondly, Obama is a U.S. Senator. The last time I checked, senators are part of the three branches of government; legislative I think they call it. It's part of the "checks and balances" so to speak that's supposed to make things hum. So as a senator, he's been around for several years and has had just as much time and opportunity to correct things that were problematic. In fact, he is closely associated with Fannie and Freddie (took their campaign contributions, a lot), Community Re-Investment Act, etc. Precisely the things that got us here.

So in a sense, he helped gut the economy and now people are supposed to have us "rally round" him as if he just flew in from heaven with untarnished wings.

I want to believe. But it's hard.