People care what I think, Dubya!
This rep from Iowa is a jerk. Rep. Steve King thinks it’s “bizarre” for Obama to be sworn in using his middle name. Maybe he’d prefer him to be sworn in as Barry O’bama?
When I taught a chemistry lab at UT in spring 2002, I took role on the first day of class and there was a kid name Osama. When I called his name, he said that he would prefer to be called “Sam”. I felt really bad for him because he seemed to be really embarrassed that I had called out his name in front of the class. Hopefully having Barack Hussein Obama take the oath of office will make things a little better for people out there like “Sam”. If there is karma in the universe, one can only hope that Rep. Steve King will be subjected to an unending stream of obnoxious jokes reminding him that his name sounds like Stephen King’s. “Iowa? I though you were from Maine…roflcopter!”, “Rep. Steve King (R – Haunted Indian Burial Ground)”, etc.
Other inaugaration thoughts…
How nice will it be to have a president that is relevant? I have never liked what Bush had to say, and I always thought his style of governing was ineffective. However, because he was the president, he could get my attention. For example, back in the day, I’d read about Bush’s tax cuts, and maybe I’d write a blog post about how they sucked. But sometime in 2006 or so, I just stopped listening to Bush. After his social security plan floppped, it was clear he couldn’t move major legislation. On Iraq, I tuned Bush out because I was more interested in hearing about a crazy little thing called reality. When Bush said he had complete confidence in Alberto Gonzalez, it shredded whatever remained of his already tattered credibility.
The financial crisis gave Bush a suprising amount of relevance at the end of his term, but even then I never regained any confidence in him. It didn’t seem like a question of “if” the bailouts would be mismanaged, but rather a question of “How exactly will Bush fuck this up.”
Wow, imagine having a president where the default assumption isn’t “gross incompetence”…amazing!
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