Okay.

There’s been a lot of barking over the past couple of days from the left about the President, and most of it seems to boil down to his not being able to instantaneously convert America from what it has been for the past eight years into what he promised it would be.

He hasn’t reversed Bush’s secrecy policies. The country still isn’t 100% gay friendly. He hasn’t done this. He hasn’t done that. Blah-blah-blah.

Enough.

America is a one-hour society. If something can’t be resolved in an hour, people start tearing their hair out and shrieking that it’s taking too long.

So, here’s the deal:

The guy has actually been President for less than 11 months (remember Inauguration Day is January 20 of the year following the election). It took the Bush Administration eight years to turn the country into a virtual third world republic.

It simply isn’t reasonable, and it isn’t particularly rational, to expect Obama to reverse all that damage, plus reform health care, plus manage two wars, plus jump start the economy, all in a matter of a relatively few months. It is also not reasonable, nor particularly rational, to allow groups outside his Administration to rank order his priorities.

The groups who feel owed something are going to have to wait a while longer. Because they aren’t in the Top 5 right now in terms of priorities, and they shouldn’t be.

Their time will come in due course, and it should.

But what good is having your time come if there’s nothing left for you to inherit? And there is a very real possibility that there won’t be anything left for any of us if the Top 5 don’t get addressed first.

Do I like waiting for all this change we were supposed to see?

No.

Am I realistic enough to have known before the election that none of that change was going to materialize in the first 11 months?

Yes.

Now take a deep breath and let the man work.

If things haven’t changed by this time next year, you can bet I’ll be right there next to you, barking louder than anyone.

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