The Chicago Way

Barack Obama has so far been a far worse president than I would have thought, and it's because of the things he hasn't done rather than the things I thought he would do. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times nicely sums up in this column just how lame the president and the Congress-controlling Democrats have been, particularly on the health care issue.

As a native Chicagoan I find it embarrassing that President Obama is thought of as one of us. No Chicagoan would put up with the treatment that this guy has tolerated. Republicans and blue dog Democrats have been kicking Obama in the nuts all summer long and he's taken it until now, tonight, when he addresses Congress, for him to react.

A true Chicagoan, at the first sight of a skirmish, would have put up his dukes and said, with a contemptuous scowl, "Bring it on," and then would have administered some good old fashioned ass whooping. "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours in the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."

Instead, Obama just took it, and didn't even appear to get the least bit angry. Perhaps he was waiting for the right time for "civil discourse" but that is not possible in this time of insanity. We need a fighting president, not a school marm.

Obama was born in Hawaii. Maybe they don't angry there, but I doubt it. I don't what planet this emotionless Obama is from, but it isn't Planet Chicago.