We have all been there.It's called an anticlimax.You know the feeling.You finally passed an elusive professional exam after 4 attempts.You finally scored with an evasive crush.You hooked up a fish after hours of adjusting the line.You won the longest campaign into the most exalted office in all of mankind's history...then comes the night after.
The lights are all out.No more opponents to bash.No more speeches to give or interviews to grant.Just unbelievable weight of expectation.These days,those backroom meetings with Plouffe and Axelrod no longer discuss how to win an election,but how to keep promises and blunt expectations.World leaders are ceaselessly queued up on caller-in-waiting.
Pressmen no longer interested in your gaffes.Just what country the hypoallergenic dog's gonna hail from.You worry you might piss off the peruvians if you even politely turn down the ugly puppy they're offering to Sasha.Michelle can't decide on a good school for the girls in DC.Malia and Sasha run real risks of growing up into lil Chelsea Clintons in no time..Oh how you'd hate that!You'd actually want to raise girly girls if possible.
Oh there's the lil matter of this illegal aunt from Kenya.Thank goodness the press have distracted themselves from that story.You also worry animal rights activists might not be so pleased at reports of Malik's cruelty to the bull on election night in Nairobi.
The outgoing C-in-C did his best to put up a gracious public front at the white house meeting last Monday.But you're too smart to ignore the truism of "no-love-lost".You barely felt his concealed disdain though, as the breath-taking sight of the Oval office was an overriding presence.Just 2 weeks ago,as a junior senator,you were not even allowed in here...you had to wait in the lobby for the senior senators and committee chairmen to share the president's prevailing emotion on the issues.
You could already feel the lustful,flirting looks on the smokin' hot white house interns' faces...it's been a while America had a total bloke in the Oval office(and you are not even sworn in yet!)... these ones are gonna be toughies for 4-8 years.A constant reminder of Bill Clinton's last years should take care of that temptation!
By the way,what exactly does "happy to work with Obama" mean when it comes from the Governator and McSarah anyways??
Even as you struggle to project a busy mien in this transition period,Circuit city declares bankruptcy.The DOW again lost >400 points today.Iran tests more surface-to-air missiles with capacity to hit Israel and American targets.Another bomb goes off in Baghdad.The lobbyists you conveniently bashed during the campaign now shamelessly knock down the doors of your transition war cabinet room.How long can you hold out?All ex-presidents tell you no one can win against the powerful lobby groups...but you gave your word to the American people.
As you continue to avoid major drama in these coming 70 days (apart from that Nancy Reagan "seances" stuff),you increasingly wonder whether that Kenyan voodoo man really and trully foresaw your victory on his divine bones...you won't mind finding out if JFK's fate may yet be yours,and whether there are any other additional protection to that of the secret service.The good reverend Jeremiah is out of bounds now...cos that would be an I-told-you-so moment indeed!...remember,no drama.
You are under no illusions that mad men abound out there..and you still have millions of passionate enemies.
A very common perception is that the black man somehow succeeds in messing things up.Look what became of South Africa after 12 years of ANC rule.Look at the whole continent of Africa.The racist elements would like nothing better than your monumental failure...so that no other black man ever entertains the effrontery of running in future.
It's not too late to make history by being the first man to win a run into the Oval office and then graciously forgoes it!..Because seriously,you have failed to come up with a right answer to the question:"Why would anyone want George Bush's job at this time?"
You need the prayers of the faithful.
OMC
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