Dave Barry on the New Administration (not this one)

[beamjockey]

As we contemplate the ins and outs of presidential transition, it might be good to look back at Dave Barry's incisive analysis of the first two weeks of President Clinton's term. From 8 February 1993:

Allow me to be the first professional news commentator to point out that the Clinton administration has failed. Look at the evidence. Bill Clinton has been president for over two weeks now, and:

-- The national debt is still enormous.

-- The world is still rife with oppression, famine and genocide.

-- George Steinbrenner is still at large.

The time has come to ask: What went wrong? How could failure have come so quickly to Bill Clinton, who started out with so much promise, so many ideas, such a large volume of hair? As is so often true with great historical issues, we will not truly know the answer until we read the next sentence.[...]

Comments

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

I REMEMBER this remark . . . at least Obama is getting more of a break from more folks than Clinton did...of course, he is also running a much tighter transition.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

That's it buster. No cabinet post for you.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Don't we, technically, have to wait until after Obama's inauguration to declare his presidency a failure? Just wondering.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

It's the modern age, don't you know. Everything from news cycles to astroturfing to manufactured group denunciations has moved to a higher level.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Good point.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Hoping my reluctant eyebrow-raised-so-I-don't-cry irony came through on that one.