How far have we come in the past year?

(published 2-Nov-2009, Appleton Post-Crescent)

Most folks that voted for "Hope and Change" were simply happy that a Democrat became President.  The fact that he's African-American is just icing on the cake.  It doesn't matter what he accomplishes; his most endearing feature is that he isn't George W. Bush.  But the government has horned in on the financial services industry, the automobile industry, and is trying its darnedest to horn in on the health insurance industry.  Some people aren't too happy that we're not out of Iraq or Afghanistan yet, unemployment still hovers near 10%, and inflation will kick in from the huge amounts of money pumped into the economy from government printing presses.  Looks like SSDD to me: Same Stuff, Different Day.  Dennis Miller put it very succinctly, as usual: it isn't that Emperor Obama is wearing NO clothes, it's that he's really wearing the same clothes as the last Emperor.

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