Children who are virtually abandoned by their fathers and whose mothers swan off at a crucial stage in the kids life close down to an extent within themselves and have an added detachment latter to all other people they meet.

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Speaking from experience?

If any poltical party could have done everything wrong, Republicans managed to do so.

These few examples are a mere tip of the iceberg:

1. - Pandering to the Fundamentalist extreme.

2. - Fictionalizing an excuse for an illegal war.

3. - Demonstrating a reckless disregard for the troops that were so despicably put in harms way.

4. - Knowingly providing veterans services at substandard or non-existent levels.

5. - Funneling billions of dollars in sweetheart deals to political allies in Big Pharma , Big Oil, Big Insurance, and War Profiteering.

6. - Misrepresenting truths at every opportunity.

7. - Deregulating the financial sector, encouraging the pillage of the American People and eventual destruction of the global economy.

8. - Mortgaging America's future by financing two wars to the tune of trillions of dollars in loans from Communist China.

9. - Believing the electorate was too unsophisticated to recognize the thousands of lies perpetrated to cover their wrongful acts.

10. - Destroying the United States international standing.

11. - Corrupting the Constitution of the United States.

12. - Giving Special Interest groups and Lobbyists free reign to articulate and write law.

13. - Corrupting the electoral process.

14. - Believing that their contempt for America would not be exposed for its open hostility to Main street, infatuation with greed, loyalty to power for powers sake and utterly indefensible assault on the American peoples will.

Hope against hope that you can prove Obama's birth certificate has been falsified. Then maybe you can get him ousted from office.

The result will be President Biden through 2012.

Think it through meathead.

The Obama administration didn't push through the sheer number of initiatives of the New Deal's first months--but its achievements are impressive nevertheless, and appear more likely to create a better ratio between good programs and bad ones. Roosevelt's efforts to stimulate economic growth through public works and relief programs were trivial compared to the enormity of Obama's stimulus package (which some critics feel is itself inadequate to the need). His effort to stabilize and strengthen the banks is still a work in progress--and a much more difficult task than the one Roosevelt faced--but it far exceeds in size and expense any such effort in our history. His first budget, not yet through Congress, marks the boldest change in public policy since at least 1980 and offers the first realistic hope of serious health care reform since 1994.

Roosevelt in his first 100 days had few international challenges, other than avoiding bad proposals from Britain and other ailing nations. Obama faces a much more bewildering array of foreign policy problems. And while no major victories, military or diplomatic, are yet in sight, he has significantly changed the tone and image of American internationalism in ways that should make future progress more likely. He has repudiated the use of torture (and made public official documents confirming its use), reduced some of the discredited hype over the "war on terror," treated friends and potential antagonists alike with courtesy and respect, and created a cool and pragmatic approach to America's role in the world that has softened the often ideological and inflexible policies of the recent past.

Perhaps most importantly, Obama has taken a shaken nation, deeply disillusioned with government, and helped it believe again that politics is not necessarily a dirty word, that progress can be made, and that government can at least sometimes be trusted. Just as Roosevelt helped create confidence through his "fireside chats" on the radio, Obama has proved to be an exceptional communicator on television, radio, and the Internet.

Effective communication was crucial to Roosevelt, because his first 100 days were important less for their achievements than for the political power they gave him to confront the more daunting tasks that still awaited. Obama, similarly, is going to need all the accumulated goodwill of his first 100 days to address the terrible problems that stand before him: two intractable wars, a continuing financial crisis, the prospect of nuclear enemies, and dangers we don't even know about yet (like the flu a week ago). The 100 days are over, and the real work is still to come.