[Miss Marple]

I have a working dog, an English shepherd (sort of looks like a border collie, but has a wide eye in herding rather than the close eye of border collies).

I was prepared to work a lot with the dog, but it is still overwhelming some days. She is smart, requires lots of attention and excercise, and you have to pay attention every minute (as I discovered last week when she managed to get a cabinet door open and spill an entire bottle of syrup in the center of the family room carpet).

Soomeone on the staff will be the real owner of this dog. The girls will see CHARLIE (I refuse to use their stupid name for him) maybe once a day for an hour or so. Hopefully there is a young non-political permanent staffer who will take charge of the dog, from the usher’s office or something. Poor Charlie. I hope the staff takes care of him well.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I think Obie is running scared now. He had no idea what he was getting himself into. He has seen the threat assessments that show the terrorists hate him just as much as they did Bush and Clinton. His European tour was a disaster and the economy isn't coming back. He has filled less that one percent of his staff positions and the ones that have been filled have been ineffective.

He will crack before four years are up. Look for him to become less and less accessible. Look for more and more meaningless distractions like dogs and pizza. The press will play along for a while but there will come a point where they can't cover for him any more.

Instead of asking if America was ready for a Black president, the media should have been asking what Black American was ready to be president. It certainly would not have been this one.