Why would anyone want to be president?

Seriously, why on earth would anyone want to be President of the United States? As much as I loved to mock George W. I even feel sorry for him. I mean, the man couldn't even choke on a pretzel and fall off the couch without the world mocking him. (Okay, that was pretty damn funny.) But at least I think he got to a point where most people just ignored him. He made such an ass of himself mangling even basic words when he spoke that people just sort of wrote him off as an idiot and I think in the end Republicans and Democrats alike were just counting down the days until he was gone.

Now we have a new President, and unfortunately for him, he is one that drew support from a lot of demographics and everyone of those demographics now want him to be 100% perfect 100% of the time. They feel like they own him and to a degree, yes, we all "own" our President. But let's not forget that all of our presidents are human. They're not God.

Yes, he made an unfortunate Special Olympics joke on The Tonight Show but he apologized before it even aired. He knew he made a mistake and he said he was sorry. George W. Bush was asked at one point in his presidency if he had ever made a mistake and his answer was "no". Let's move on. Invite the Special Olympics kid that says he bowls a 300 game to the White House for a photo op bowling game on the White House lanes and move on. As great of a cause as the Special Olympics are, and they really truly are, I'd rather my president be worried about fixing the economy and ending the wars that we're currently fighting.

And now the marijuana smoking people are going after him. Seriously? He was asked in an online town hall meeting this question: "Will you consider decriminalizing the recreational/medical use of marijuana(hemp) so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and a multi-billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?"

I have to say, it's a valid question. It is a billion dollar industry and we could certainly use the tax money these days but really, what was he supposed to say? Yes? That would have gone over really well with the rest of the country. Either way he wasn't going to win and now one of the headlines on CNN.com is how the marijuana advocates are all pissed off at him because they supported him through his run for the presidency but now they're receiving record numbers of donations because he laughed off the question. If he had said "yes, I think that's a GREAT idea" then record numbers of donations would be pouring into anti-marijuana organizations. The man can't win.

Any president, Republican or Democrat, especially in their first 100 days faces considerable amount of scrutiny and I have to wonder why anyone would put themselves through that? Obama could walk outside and say "What a beautiful blue sky we have today" and the color-blind people of America would be in an uproar.

Why don't we let him see what he can do. Even in the worst case scenario he can't do any worse than we sunk to with George W. If he can come in and clean some of this shit up, great....let him. If he can't, vote him out of office in four years. Let's just realize that not a single one of us could live with our every word being scrutinized to the degree that he lives with every single day.

I had a friend ask me the other day that if the Red River flooding means that Obama hates white people (a la Katrina and W). My answer would be: only if he lets them all shack up in a crumbling stadium with no plumbing, no food, no water, and people dying around them while he goes on vacation and tells the guy that left them there to suffer that he was "doing a hell of a job".

Now, let's give the guy some damn breathing room and let him do his job.