How about a little "Morning in America"?

So we've got, for the most part, a stimulus package. It's not perfect, according to Obama, and really, really, really far from perfect according to just about everyone else.

But stimulus aside, what to make of Obama's leadership in the past few days? In a word, shitty.

In selling the stimulus package, that most everyone outside the beltway deemed not targeted or temporary or timely, he kept

using campaign rhetoric, lobbing bombs at the GOP (apparently now it's not OK to disagree with the president -- only when it comes to Iraq), and using words like "catastrophe," etc. Then, on top of that, after everyone panned the "other treasury guy," Tim Geithner comes out and lays a giant egg on the market. What's with these guys? To quote Casey Stengel, can't anyone here play this game?

But more importantly, where is the message of hope? Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? I mean, the guy doesn't have to be ignorant of the mess we're in or ignore it or whitewash it, etc., but a little hope in his speeches might be good. Instead we get visits to completely played out towns and words like catastrophe. WE GET IT! THINGS ARE BAD! But instead, just like the GOP used fear of terror (although rightly! heh heh) to win elections, Obama is using fear of economic disaster as a way to get this pork filled, corn-studded stimulus bill passed.

But offer some hope for god's sakes.

Are you doing the best you can do, in actions and words? No. You're scaring the shit out of everybody by your hemming, hawing and lousy stimulus package that I would bet a million dollars you didn't even read before you agreed to support.

The old man in the picture, by the way, is Diogenes of Sinope, Cynic philosopher "searching for a human being."