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The Indecider

SNL, whose political blade seems dull when compared to the The Daily Show, absolutely shredded Obama in their opening sketch.  I wouldn’t say it was “funny” but it’s something the mainstream media couldn’t do because that would be “biased”.  It’s really unfair to make Rachel Maddow the only person on cable news willing to point out Obama’s shortcomings since he’s clearly come up short on so many issues. 

I understand the complications in closing Gitmo but gays in the military?  Torture prosecutions?  For a man who claimed during the campaign that the president has to do more than one thing at a time, he rarely seems to be doing even one thing, or at least something that actually makes an important difference in people’s lives. When it comes to actually presiding over the country in a practical way, he’s either tossed it aside, or worse, he’s tossed it into the black hole that is the United States Congress. Right now, Obama is basically our cool, black friend in the White House like the British have their adorable grandmother in Buckingham Palace. Remember that big, rousing speech Obama gave on September 9th about health care reform?  Well, it’s been almost a month since then and what’s changed?  How did he follow up his brilliant oratory?  The same way he’s followed up everything else he’s turned his attention to.

There’s deliberate, there’s pragmatic, and then there’s indecisive and SNL knew exactly which one when it made its most brutal stab: “It took me four months just to pick out a dog.”

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