Well, Strings, in the words of George W, "Being president is hard..." Of course, this was George W... Everything is hard for him...

But your observation that Obama finds himself in a trick bag is 100% accurate... We all learned with the Dixie Chicks just how much of BIG MEDIA is owned by Republicans and just how quickly they can strike... Obama hasn't gotten much help from the progressives but hopefully that will change with the Occupy Wall Street movement will give him some cover...

Face it, the progressive movement has been blackballed for the last 34 years but maybe that is about to change... It took hundreds of thousands of Egyptians to bust up the right winged ballgame there and it may very well take that many to break up the Wall Street ballgame...

B~