As recorded for broadcast on WCBC Radio, 1-30-10

When all the world’s a stage, everyone else is a prop.

I read a Yahoo headline the other day, and figured the Good Lord had finally gotten around to some long-overdue divine retribution: “Earth gives way under Texas,” it read.

Unfortunately, it was just a sinkhole outside San Antonio, not near big enough to swallow that state’s many sins against man and nature, not the least of which is George W. Bush.

We arrived at these dark times, I am compelled to once again remind the zombie hordes of Fox & Fiends, long before Obama took office.  So for a change, don’t blame the president for all that ails us, but rather aim at the man and what he’s done, or has failed to do over these past 12 months.

Unfortunately, that target grows.

Once more there’s revolution in Massachusetts, Tea Party blowhards like the British fleet in Boston Harbor, blood-red dagger driven to the heart of Blue.

And once upon a long ago, I would have given a damn, but I swore in the ashes of November 2, 2004, that I would never again take unto myself the sins of a willfully ignorant American electorate.

Not that I totally blame the Bay State boobs who drank the Kool-Aid and betrayed the legacy of self-sacrifice that saw Lexington and Concord bleed at the birth of nationhood.  Had the election been in Maryland, we would have sucked it up and voted in the listless, clueless, machine-anointed Democrat, for the good of the country, that was health care reform.  But then, we’re just that kind of state.

Fact is, I’ve long had a problem with Massachusetts.  It’s just too hard to spell.

Another fact is, Obama brought it on himself.

One year in to what I still hope is eight, Obama is less in my eyes, because I didn’t believe it inevitable that he would disappoint.  Not in results alone, for more than battles won or lost, it’s battles fought that measure the man, and the administration.  With the nation split along a widening partisan divide, with government paralyzed by an entrenched Congress interested most in retaining power; with a Supreme Court that bows to a corporate master; more than ever we need a president of passion, conviction and most of all, integrity.

Politics being a necessary evil, tradeoffs are required, but Obama has given away that which mattered most.  He allowed to remain unleashed the Wall Street beast that will inevitably push us once more unto the brink.  He caved to Big Pharma on price reduction and drug importation.  And he cowtowed to Chinese tyrants by turning his back on a man of faith and liberty, the Dalai Lama.

And then, in some ways worst of all, he went to Ohio, in the wake of Massachusetts, and gave a speech about jobs.  Without his tie.

When all the world’s a stage, everyone else is a prop.

Democrats will never out-Rove the Republicans.  The party’s salvation, is also the nation’s: That a man of character, not calculation, will set our course once more upon the path of American righteousness.  For the country’s sake, and the world’s.

A year into Barack Obama’s term, we wait still.

Yet hope endures…