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Sunday, May 04, 2014
Barack as the stoner student
He served a full, four year term as US President from January 2009 to January 2013 and he's now in the second year of his second (and final) term.
So it's with much anticipation and excitement that The White House announced Saturday that 2014 would be "The President's Year of Action."
That's good to know.
Clearly 2009 wasn't his year of action or 2010 or 2011 or 2012 or 2013 . . .
We seriously doubt 2014 will be his year of action though we applaud a goal being set.
It may seem a little harsh to point out he's kind of like a stoner student in the middle of the spring term deciding to suddenly go to class and do the reading but -- we all do realize he's planning to begin his "year" of action in May, right?
In the fifth month of the year, he's going to try to get active?
Again, he's the stoner student who's been cutting class and not doing the work for half the semester but is now going to turn it around.