We could also compare it to Barack as your first child.
Oh look, he's crawling!
Oh look, he's trying to stand up!
Oh look, he's walking!
Oh look, he's going to potty by himself!
You know what? Barack's not our lover or f**k buddy. He's not our child.
He is our employee and as such we expect him to get to work and do the work with a minimum of fuss.
We didn't spend the last eight years going cow-eyed over the Bully Boy and we didn't hold onto our sanity and standards through all of that with the hopes of trading it away in 2009.
Barack's not only already received more flattery than he's earned, he's received more flattery than his presidential peers.
Unless Barack's presidency is supposed to be the final act of announcing to the country that the President is a puppet of the establishment and nothing more than Miss America minus the swimsuit competition, how about we let him accomplish something before we fall to our knees in praise?
He's doing a lot that should be resulting in loud jeers.
Last week, speaking to the editorial board of The Washington Post, he declared he was going to 'fix' the unbroken Social Security and he declared that he would close Guantanamo but needed to find a new place to keep those currently imprisoned.
No, it's not living up to the lies that had people voting for.
Barack is not the president of Black America, he's not the president of White America. He is the president of the United States. (And for those who think we're worse to Barack than Bully Boy -- please note, we never called Bully Boy the p-word. We made it through eight years without using that term in our lives, and we made it through our online lives never using it either.)
As the president, he may turn out to be historic. And even in historic in a good way. Anything's possible.
But unless he's a spokesmodel, how about we all grow the hell up and drop this eternal "historic" for every damn day on the calendar?
This week he becomes the president of the United States. President Barack Obama. He is not the first president and he will not be the last president. If he does anything worthy of remembering -- good or bad, he will be historic.
The simple act of being does not qualify him -- nor anyone else -- for "historic" status.
A little perspective please.
