He's got a tough job! 

He doesn't have the managerial experience of, say, a Cheney or a Rumsfeld!   But you (except our cherished trolls/concern trolls) voted for him, warts, inexperience, and all!   Goodness, he was a flipping community organizer until 2005! 

He handled something imperfectly?  Did you every do that as well?

Stick with your decision!  We need him to be there for us; that means someone's got to be there for him?  If not you, WHO?

(And yes, Dr. Watson, dumping Geithner to salve one's feelings *will* have negative consequences for the President, and maybe not just fo him!)   That's my rant, and I'm serious about it, and everybody have a good day! :)

P.S.  Here's some context from our ever-elegant leader, video from Leno. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20265.html   

A lot of people are reciting the above these days, and it's a Republican talking point.

Yeah, they'll take some of the hit if they can use it to knock down Obama.

It's actually part of an illogical syllogism, the next step being,

"The Republicans aren't great either, but at least they didn't double the national debt so that taxpayers can give bonuses to crooks!"

Then, "Or bring us fricking socialism!  Sure, the war on terror is expensive, but you've gotta admit,

Bush kept us safe."  That's where this leads, and you know it.

So when somebody says to you, "I guess this is what 'change' was all about!" and you answer,

"Yeah, I know -- it's horrible!," you are participating in this agitprop.  Instead, why not tell them they're Overreaching, and that Obama's doing a good job in really hard cirumstances, whereas McCain would have simply been incompetent and might well have hatched a second Great Depression.  Hey, the markets are fluctuating a bit, but they're doing pretty well, considering. 

Buck up, eh?   :)

This line, in a poorly-written Politico article, got me going:

"The way presidential libraries work, the library and museum will be run by the government after they're built by the George W. Bush Foundation, which is chaired by Donald L. Evans, the president's [sycophant]."  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19996.html  I didn't know that USG funded these vanity enterprises' operations, no wonder there are so many of them!  I checked to see if even accidental President Gerald Ford had one; for a look at it (leading with a terrible pic of his bad teeth), see, http://www.ford.utexas.edu/.   Meanwhile, Bush's main competitor for worst President, James Buchanan, only gets "five document boxes" in Dickinson College somewhere in Pennsylvania.  Sure, Buchanan got expelled from there, but Bush was a drunk, so what's the difference and where is the love for James?!

Very offensively, Bush and SMU plan for their loser establishment to be a living policy "institute."  It will be as though the failed Bush presidency never ended, as his lamebrained hounds will pontificate on Bush-style policy prescriptions they might like, even though they had endless opportunities to put real policies in place (like how to rescue Iraq after the damfool idea of invading it) but instead just boasted about how the problems would easily fix themselves.  

We will be funding this masturbatory indolence?   What will they be discussing, the Rumsfeld Formula for Victory?  How to Create a New Great Depression?  Infuriating Russia at Taxpayer Expense?  The Gonzalez Years?  How We Prevented 9/11? The Jurisprudential Theories of Harriet Miers?  The Public Diplomacy of Dick Cheney?  Winning Afghanistan?  Taxation and Budgeting for Our Future?  How We Reined In Iran?  Hero of Katrina? Catching Bin Laden? 

These libraries are a real treasure trove for scholars, utterly priceless, don't get me wrong.  And wouldn't it be an even greater public service to put the shit on line and de-fund these silly institutions, particularly this Overreaching disgrace?