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has happened to wean the USA from its terrible addiction to Middle Eastern oil. I swear, it's like an alcoholic who gulps down another bottle of whiskey each night while muttering, "Tomorrow I'll go on the wagon . . . I swear!"

What's the new President done about that so far? Nothing.

We still have lots of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and no telling when they'll be coming home. Or when the situations in each country will be stable enough to make it halfway practical to bring them home, for that matter.

I haven't noticed President Obama doing anything to rein in the worst impulses and general lack of accountability of the United States Supreme Court, either.

The credit markets are still a lot tighter than they were just a couple of years ago. How are young people supposed to live the American dream if they aren't allowed to keep spending themselves into debt as fast and furious as their parents taught them was their birthright? Barack Obama is still in his forties, so one would hope he'd more easily relate to the young people of today and do something about this!

Furthermore, the new president hasn't even cured AIDS yet! Is that really so much to ask from "the most powerful man in the world"? I am aware that no other president of the last three decades has managed to achieve that one either, but I thought we were supposed to see a whole new day dawning in America, instead of just the same old politics as usual, with the federal government spending far too much in order to achieve far too little.

Well, so much for that pipe dream!

It is true that President Obama referred to some of these matters in his Inaugural, but any fool can try to score brownie points by simply MENTIONING problems with a concerned tone . . . as other presidents and presidential wannabes have frequently demonstrated. (Heck, even I can usually manage that much!) Actions speak louder than words, I always say. Where are the actions?

Given his failure to meet these modest expectations thus far, I see no reason to think President Obama will not carry on with the slacker behavior patterns which he has now demonstrated for all the world to see; hence, I am already resigning myself to another 3.995 years' worth of disillusioned disappointment.

All of the above is my absolutely impartial and carefully considered opinion, and naturally my desperate hope that Rupert Murdoch will find an opening for me as a syndicated columnist has nothing to do with it.

(Psssst! Rupert! I'll work cheap!)

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