Our teacher the President or The President, our teacher?

I have tried in earnest to write this morning. I have tried writing two posts so far but have not been able to advance either one of them worth a damn. I have concluded it is not “writer’s block” but rather there is so much going on these days and it is difficult to focus on one issue. I will not take the negative issue “some people” are trying to perpetuate and that is, “The President is doing too much!” Translation: “He is pushing us too hard and we are having problems keeping up”.

Metaphorically, I look at it as reading and grading papers students have turned in from the President’s classroom.

Thinking of the President as a teacher, he has given assignments for various homework assignments and the students are now turning them in and we, his assistants, have to read them, grade them and pass them up the line for grade averaging. Just when you think you have gotten through one batch of homework papers, here comes another batch and another.

Somewhere along the line, you get the impression you are not doing all of this work for this teacher to get a Bachelor‘s Degree; this teacher, Our President Obama, has slid us into a PH.D program in Political Science and you say, “What happened? How’n hell did he do that?” as his cabinet members sit back smiling as if to say, “Yes, you can! We did.” It seems we are being gently carried from the unknown to the known regarding how our government works with the associated pains and triumphs of learning.

Question: Are we “woke up” yet? If you “woke up” to something, i.e., Black dialect (He ain’t woke up yet!), it is more of a sun-shiny day than if you were merely “awakened” and God help those who remain asleep nowadays for whatever reason. (Smile)
As always,
BB
P.S. According to the President, it is going to be an unusual day in America when you assume a person does not have a Bachelor’s Degree.