If you turned on your radio, tuned in on the internet, looked at a youtube video about the events of President Obama's visit to Southern California yesterday, you would probably be asking the same things that I am asking. First of all, those in the same bed as Mr. Limbaugh have always had a problem with people in the media being way too nit-picky, overly politically correct, having little use for anything like a moral compass. Yesterday when Obama was on the Leno show, no one said anything about why it was that he -Obama- would make the comment he did about his bowling scores.

So, for years and years we have young men and women on the other side of the world still fighting Bush's war, but what is the most important thing right now is that Barrack Obama made mention of his bowling scores making him eligible for placement on the Special Olympics bowling team, at least that is what I got out of it. For years people kept at it with messing with Bush's record of being a drunk, but at the same time people voiced that the reason they voted for him is because "he is someone I could drink a beer with." Yay you - drinking a beer with yet another aging frat boy. Super.

Obama is the president who seems to actually be voted in by the people and is here for the people, and there are people who will tell me that I am wrong, but I don't recall anytime in my lifetime a president visiting a town known for its street knowledge mentality. When people hollah "P TOWN IN THA HY-OUSE," it ain't because we don't know a thing or two about all those things that make all those very good, very born again, very, very white collar people (who don't neccesarily vote with the "R" word..) cringe with bitter contempt.

I won't say that I voted for the man. There is something about a Freshman senator running the free world that is akin, or at least was akin, in my mind to allowing a 12 year old to drive granny to the airport and the car is a 5-speed V8. However, it is my opinion that the reason so many of those whitey-tighty wearin' folks are up in arms about ANYTHING that Obama does is because, basically, their team lost the game. Plainly, simply, it is all bitterness and nothing more.

I cannot claim to being completely unbiased when it comes to being a member of a group that is either for or against a thing or two. People are funny. We all want to get what we want, and we want the rest of the world to just accept that what we want may not really be what we all need and we want to make sure that people know that even though this may be the case, it doesn't matter because there are people who will vehemently disagree with things simply because the person in charge of those things is not on the same team as we are.

I had very little faith in President Obama, and in the weeks that have passed since he took office I will say that I am impressed with his tenacity. He did not come to the gun fight with a knife. He did not tell us that he was going to fix the messes we are in - he simply told us that he was going to help us help ourselves and that he will be there to get his hands dirty, too.

That he would make mention of bowling scores and the Special Olympics is a moot point at best. We have become a nation of people who feel entitled to respect that we did not earn, and we have come to the point in our mentality that we would rather glorify in those things that we think we are than to glorify what we know we are. Instead of furthering the thinking that Obama is picking on those who would be eligible for the Special Olympics, perhaps it might be that he is just a regular guy who happens to be well educated and is leading the free world.

He has not fixed anything, but at least he is attempting to. Which is way more than just standing in front of the nation telling us that we are screwed and that we are in a deep recession - tell us something that we not only don't know, but that we would rather hear. Maybe telling us that we have a long road to recovery would be best for him to say right now, don't you think?

Oh. Wait a minute - he already said that, like, a lot.

MAPU