President Obama, or just Obama, has been the most powerful man on the planet for about a year now and it seems like he’s not really as powerful or as visionary as I might have hoped. I am disappointed by just how pragmatic and centrist he seems to be. But I am truly appalled by the both the Republicans and the media that allows them to get away with saying whatever bullshit they want.

Cheney, who I think should be in jail as a war profiteer, continues to spout off with statements about Obama that are simply untrue. The non-fact based world of Republicans has gotten even more non-fact based, more divorced from reality, meaner, stupider, and uglier.

Don’t people remember how systematically they ran this country into the ground and how incompetently and corruptly they governed? Apparently not. Apparently most people think the fact that Obama could not snap his fingers and make it all better within a year makes it OK to vote for Republicans who will go back to the aggressively stupid policies that caused the debacle in the first place.

Look, I like a thoughtful, intellectual president. I recognize that there are some sincere Republicans and that some conservative values do promote the greater good. But good lord, isn’t there anybody but Rachel Maddow and Keith Obermann who can muster the proper sense of anger and disbelief at the Republican strategy of simply vilifying virtual anything Obama says that isn’t about more military spending? Sheesh.