Our Part Time President

After President Obama was elected, the press inundated the public with observations of such milestones as "...the first African-American President...", "... the first African American President in the White House...", "...the first State of the Union Address given by an African-American President...", et cetera.

In all of their enthusiasm to compete with other members of the press for the most significant "...first African-American President to _____" observation, no member of the press took note of the Most Significant First by an American president - the FIRST PART-TIME PRESIDENT!

This title of being the First Part Time President is not dependent upon President Obama's performance after the inauguration, but is granted solely upon his work history prior to his election to the highest office in the land.

The following is from wikipedia:

"Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned following his election to the presidency.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago prior to earning his law degree, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the United States Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. During his tenure as Senator, he served on several committees, including the Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works, Veterans' Affairs, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Impressive?

Student, community organizer (who soon realized that he would be ineffective without more political power), law student, civil rights attorney (several accounts of his time at the law firm indicate that his billable hours were far lower than that of his colleagues; that he was spending a large portion of his time working on his book; that he felt like a spy in the enemy camp), adjunct lecturer on Constitutional Law (not on tenure track), State Senator (which does not require as much time as a dedicated United States Senator), United States Senator (from which he used to run for POTUS starting from his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention during which time he was only a lowly State Senator and had yet to be elected to the United States Senator).

His whole adult life he drifted from job to job until he was elected POTUS. His history has been to get a job, start on getting the next job, then move on.

He now has a full-time job - the first job requiring executive and leadership abilities. This job
is guaranteed for a full four years with an option for a renewal for another four. Unless he gets elected to be President of Earth, he cannot use this job to pave the way for an even better job. Maybe one that pays better, but not one that has any greater prestige than POTUS.

For the good of our country, I hope that he takes his first real full-time job seriously and does a great job. I pray that he does not develop the belief that being POTUS is not worth the aggravation and decide that he deserves better treatment because he is Barack Obama.

A few weeks ago, President Obama was talking to some newspaper publishers when he made the comment that he was pretty good at being President. I wonder if he has changed his opinion of himself or if he has changed his opinion of everyone else.