That Obama Style.

The President took the weekend off to celebrate Valentines day with his wife in Chicago. He is also making it a long weekend by taking President's day off. Perhaps to begin writing his memoirs.

As we approach the two month anniversary of Obama's taking office we can look back at his achievements. He took the first weekend in the White House off to get to know the place and get situated. Fair enough. Then, a week later, he and his wife ducked out on scheduled interviews to bring the press to a local academy citing "We just had to get away from the White House". Last weekend the President and his family flew to Camp David to get some rest.

Obama has yet to arrive on time for anything. It's now called Obama time. Perhaps he is busy playing with his Blackberry.

After touring the country making speeches saying "We must not delay the passage of the stimulus package" he has put off signing it until next Tuesday. He will have more time to read it before signing it than our congress did before voting in it.

It seems nobody in the administration had taken the time to investigate the tax problems of their cabinet nominees or if Senator Gregg would, as Commerce Secretary, be able to accept the bailout bill's contents and the transfer of control of census information to the White House. I supposed they were too busy trying to figure out what to do with the prisoners at Guantanamo when it closes.

The Obama style seems to be that of a man in it over his head. Trying to find excuses not to go to work and roll up his sleeves. All he has done is sign a few presidential orders. And he wasn't sure what was in them. The bailout bill was crafted by the house and senate. I'm not sure what Obama actually did to help craft them. After passage, he might want to give credit where it is due and stay away from it. I am sure Harry and Nancy will be standing behind him to make sure he signs the bill in the right place.

While his supporters call Obama another Kennedy. His style is more like Harding. His story is very similar. A mediocre rise from the senate to the white house. A very populist president comes in as the rubber stamp candidate of the party. If only they had the 24 hour media back in 1920. They might have been able to vet the cabinet for Warren G. a little better. His tax evaders made it in. Just like Geithner. President Harding's speeches and press conferences were love fests of the media. Harding never really said anything profound, but you wouldn't have known it by what you read in the papers. Sound familiar? But while Harding signed what he was told to and supported the crooks in his cabinet, corruption grew as he played poker and smiled for the cameras and newsreels. When he finally accepted the reality of his situations, it took a toll on his health and eventually killed him.

'Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.' If Obama wants to set a new style for the White House and the presidency, perhaps he better do some research. This one's been done before.