Obama Has a Tough Road Ahead….

Barack Obama has a huge set of problems he will need to deal with after he is officially sworn in, in January, as the 44th president of the United States, not the least of which is the economy and what is to be done with the rest of the financial bailout money that Bush’ administration heaped on the newer administration, instead of working together (God, I love this country sometimes, we’re in the midst of the worst crisis of this new century, and they just “put it off” – isn’t that special?), but he’s got record unemployment numbers to deal with, the failing auto industry banging down his door for fiscal help, and he’s also got a ton of infrastructure problems, not to mention the task ahead of him for building foreign policy relationships, especially since he is not the most experienced in this area.

He’s going to have a lot of diversions from his real job, and that isn’t necessarily a good thing for a fairly inexperienced commander in chief, and yet many feel that he is more than up to the task and feel that he may be just what we need, not a cynical older guy who’s been there, done that and who may not have his eyes open the way a man with relative inexperience may have to new opportunities and ways to do things.

Obama is fully aware of this challenge, and the poor guy already looks as if he’s been stressed out beyond belief, since he now already looks a bit older, and he hasn’t even taken office yet! However, I’m choosing to take the positive road and tend to think that he may do a great job, he just needs to be broken in, and talk about trial by fire, this is the epitome of that if I ever saw one.

It’s sad to say though, that the president, no matter who he is, can only do so much for an ailing economy. Sure, he can make the right decisions when it comes to economic policy and financial growth for the country, but all in all, this is a nation that needs to recover on its own. There are too many variable at work here that any one person has any type of power to fix.