I don't agree at all that Obama owns the previous administration's policies whatsoever. They belong to Bush, and to us. Bush perpetrated them, and we let him. Obama has nothing to do with them. Zero.

Since the moment the man was in office - the moment - he and we have been inundated with the important, the slightly serious and the picayune. 24/7 news cycles, unlimited posting of gripes, cynicism, enthusiasm, idiocy. Pundits, talking heads, bloggers, lowly opinion posters. Our media never rests - it whips us up into frenzies about every single issue that comes down the pike. Nothing is more or less important than the other. Obama failed the day after elected, he failed before being elected, we're pre-failed as a country, a culture, past our prime.

Meanwhile we have a man in office who is doing almost exactly what we've said many of us have wanted for decades. He staffs extremely well and acts prudently and reasonably. He's dealing with global warming, Bush's broken economy, inherited wars, health care, women's rights. And he inspires us, when we care to listen rather than snipe (Paglia take notice); inspires in fact a great deal of the world (the African speech was wonderful). In a few months he's put us back on the map as leaders, good-guys.

Our problem is that the only way we can see change anymore is if it's top-loaded. If Obama hasn't done it for us, it can't or won't be done. We don't write our congressmen, we write here. We rail against the bars of our cages, we pick fights with the locals - instead of rattling our jailers and making change ourselves. Obama didn't jail us - Bush did.

Yes, I too want Eric Holder to investigate the issues at hand - Cheney's re-routing of our government - but I know that once he starts, that issue will subsume everything else. Everything. It's a flash point that the Republicans will jump on at the expense of every single other issue. And so will the media - no health care or economic relief, complex solutions that are hard to effect and harder to observe. It's he-said, Cheney-said - sound-bite theater. Why isn't Obama dealing with it? Why the hell did we let it happen in the first place?

What part of our media atmosphere isn't exhausted by that flame will be sucked up by Obama and gay marriage, Obama and Israel, Obama and polar bears, Obama and 1,000 other important, not-so-important, but always heartfelt agendas. And we'll watch the clock tick away his term, like Clinton's. We'll argue, we'll thrash, we'll howl, we'll applaud - at the media circus which feeds on.........Obama vs. Bush. We'll relive the last 8 years, rather than plan for the next 50.

If Holder and Obama investigate, it's because they're decent people and good elected officials - because it's warranted, and because we want it. But it's not because they own a thing. Bush did it.

And we own it. Let's make our wishes known. and then help them be effective.

Be the change you wish to see. If you want to see no change - you're absolutely on the right track. If you say there's no reason for change, you're exactly who you seem to be.

If you want positive results - if you want results at all - you're nowhere near them.

Is not.

(Is that how you play?)

"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."

Lily Tomlin

I thought that was what everyone was trying to do around here. But you know better.

Goodnight. The forum is yours, with the stars and the moon and all creation itself.

for the contact info. Let's hope Obama's strong team can walk, chew gum, make strides and prosecute at the same time - if they can't, who on earth could? (And that we don't get Every Night Football out of it.)

why wait for 2012? RUN NOW! She can either organize a Congressional Do-over of the last election (see Department of Law Handbook, pg 3) or run for Shadow Governor of the lower 48. Then sit back and let the dough roll in and those early votes for 2010 (download Official Mid-term Presidential Ballot from foxnews.com).

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Todd bless America!

and what a great example of American can-do spirit.

"Are we telling young adults it is alright to waste half their lives in a drug stupor and somehow it will magically work out?"

No, no, Nanette - we're telling them that if they'll just keep they're addictions discrete and within the sturdy walls of their darling homes, they'll probably never have to detox. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

Obama is not Clinton 2. I don't think he'll ever be, a different set of skills entirely. And this Congress isn't Clinton's Congress. I don't buy the one-week deadline - you mean like the economy is going to fail and we need to move all our money over to your house tonight?

But I will second the notion of time and essence. Health care in this country is a gaping wound, and the polls practically scream it - 85% in favor of overhaul.

If Congress can't be bothered to listen to our President, perhaps they could spare a moment for the 258 million pro-reform citizens standing behind him.