Did You Think He Said "Change"?

What? A black face in front of the Presidential seal isn't enough for you?*

Obama came into office with an ambitious agenda to develop alternative energy and cut US carbon emissions. So far Congress has done little on these issues, and no climate bill is expected from the Senate this year nor, perhaps, next. China's decision to set specific goals for its "carbon intensity" may leave the US behind as the world's biggest polluter that has no idea what to do about it.

  Juan Cole

That sounds about right. But back up. He said that was his agenda. It's not his fault if we believed him.

In January, Obama announced the most ambitious goal in the Mideast since Clinton, of finalizing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since then, aside from arranging some meetings for his special envoy George Mitchell, he has accomplished nothing worth mentioning on this front. Worse, he has been openly defied by the far rightwing Likud government of Binyamin Netanyahu, who has announced that he will build more housing on Palestinian land for Israeli illegal immigrants into Palestinian territory.

Status quo has always worked for previous Oval Office Offal.

Obama still has not gotten significant regulation and other reform of Wall Street practices enacted, so that all the shady dealings that caused last year's massive collapse are still licit. Moreover, bankers are still giving each other enormous multi-million-dollar annual bonuses to celebrate the jobs they've been doing (which look to the rest of us pretty piss poor, and, to boot, for which we are now often footing the bill).

But he’s been on late night TV a couple of times and had some pretty nice vacation digs. And got a cool dog.

*Hey, he's the one going on late night and talking about the race issue. I'm just responding. But don’t mind me. I’m still mad because somebody dropped a house on my sister.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.