The Anniversary

Dear Mr. President Barack Obama,

A speech about health care outlined principles. A speech today on Wall Street did the same. Where's the beef?

If your aim is to be the Teflon president, please know that you fail. If it wasn't your aim, you're doing a good job of fooling the future historians who decide your legacy.

Rope-a-doping the Republicans won't work -- they're too tough. As Joe Wilson showed us, they will stop at nothing to defeat you. Be as smooth as lacquered wood at your own peril.

Here's why: the push and pull of politics allow the Repubs to score major gains in 2010, and though some have cast me as a right-wing ideologue, I can only count my views as apolitical -- or a-apocalypse to be more precise.

Stand strong now, or be swept up in a backlash until you put on your brilliant campaign in 2012 against Jeb Bush. Be a policy-maker or a political shaker.

America needs the former.

Best,
Bloginator

2009 NFL Preview

1. Put your money on the Pats to win it all. I don't care how tight the odds get. Trust me.

2. Same for the Redskins to win the NFC East. Trust me.

3. Draft James Davis, Browns, and Robert Meachem, Saints, as deep sleepers in your fantasy league. Just saying.

4. Watch the Week 14 Lions @ Ravens game. You will see something you've never seen before in your life and will remember for the rest of it.