Would you want a president that spent every waking hour thinking only of your foreign wars, bank and industry bailouts and unemployment figures?  Would that make any of those things better?  And hey what about sleep?  Maybe the president should get hooked on bennies and stay awake 24/7 because after all the United States never sleeps.  The economy moves on, insurgents attack in the Gulf or Central Asia, somebody is working the final hours of their job or losing their home.  How dare he sleep!  We shouldn’t wake him up with that 3am. phone call.  What is the lout doing dozing off in the first place?  (Wonder if he got it yet and how he responded?  It did seem last fall that it was the most important issue of the campaign to those of us looking on.)  Or even worse he and Michelle would take the nation’s time to say howdy to each other horizontally if you know what I mean.  Image the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs calling at such a moment.  He hears a terse ‘WHAT?’from the president and asks for permission to launch the American nuclear deterrent and only hears a chorus of yes! Yes!! YEs!!! YES!!!! on the other end.  Guess we are all cooked. 

Sorry if I am beginning to get a little absurd here, but really!  Maybe the news media should ask itself if it doesn’t have more important things to cover than this nonsense.  But since they have run out of story ideas on Paris’s panties they have to have something so it’s Barack’s brackets.  CNN and the rest of them are what puts the laughter into professional journalism.  Not in the sense of covering the funny story which is good as we all need lighter moments in our lives, but in the sense of their childish obsession with the trivial and mundane.  To paraphrase Monty Python ‘I hope there is intelligent journalism somewhere in the universe because there is bugger all down here on earth.’