I'm likely to give Barack Obama's presidency six months before I trash him. 100 days is meaningless, and the first 30 has been so full of barrel fish it doesn't even seem fair.
However, this is how I see all the scandals. Firstly, if you're going to get new blood into the capitol, some of this nonsense comes with the territory. The fact of the matter is that Joe Sixpack has no clue about how powerful and wealthy people actually live. The idea that some people might get $100,000 worth of free perks probably does seem incredibly scandalous, as does the idea that somebody might have forgotten to pay $20,000 in back taxes that they just happen to have lying around.
However Barack Obama has fanned the populist flames that boil this pot by castigating rich people in general and CEOs in particular.
It's been might quiet around Obamaland. The reason is clear. They have nothing to brag about. There are a dozen ways to snipe at this guy, and I think its fair that he and all of his fatuous admirers be taken down a peg. I could, but I'm not going to right now.
See the way I see it is this. There's only one lesson to learn from the mistakes that Obama is inevitably going to make, and it's the big lesson. It's an old lesson too. In fact, the best way I've seen it described (popularly) is in the following video.
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