Blaming Obama for Not Being a God

[Ed Barrow]

Gulf Coast residents are supposedly mad at President Obama for not keeping the oil from threatening their beaches and marshes. We hear this in stereo -- from political opposition on the right and liberal pundits bored by the president's cerebral approach to problem-solving.

Stopping the waves is a job for Neptune, not a president. Obama cannot raise his trident and force the oil back into the hole. There are things he can do, but they're a lot less impressive.

Granted, Obama's early campaign for president cultivated a myth of his godlike powers. And some still seem to buy into the magic narrative. Columnist Maureen Dowd writes that "Barack Obama is a guy who is accustomed to having stuff go right for him." Sunday talk show panelists repeated this idea, followed by "and now look what's happening to him": A vast oil spill brings disaster in the gulf. Israel complicates Mideast diplomacy by killing would-be blockade breakers. The new job numbers are lousy.

With all due respect to colleagues, these things aren't happening to Obama. They are happening to the world. Obama's vaunted "good luck" was in campaign politics, a far smaller and more manageable stage than he's playing on today. There has never been a time in world history when stuff wasn't happening.


http://www.truthout.org/froma-harrop-blaming-obama-not-being-a-god60243

[thelordofhell]

1. If someone asks if you're a God, you say, "YES!"!!

--Winston Zeddemore

[Demeter]

4. Please note the monicker

enough said.

[hughee99]

2. If he were god, fewer DUers would believe in him. n/t

[Demeter]

3. I Blame Obama for Not Being a Democrat

I don't need a god in charge, just an honest, decent, hard-working and ethical leader of people; and absolutely not a toady of multinational, thieving corporations.