Day 323 – What does Ward Cleaver do?

Anyone who’s seen “Leave it to Beaver” knows that Beaver’s dad Ward put on a suit every morning, went to work and came home for dinner. No one ever quite knew what he did, though. A lot of TV shows used the generic office job as a way to give the father something to do. In reality, a lot of suburban dads had a job that wasn’t 9 to 5 or didn’t involve pushing papers all day.

Ward Cleaver is what I think of when I consider what President Jackass does as president. He’s really done nothing so far. He’s made no decisions on health care, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gitmo, bank regulation or the budget. He’s signed the Stimulus (written by one of his Czars) and a few other pointless bills.

When the members of his party beg him to show some leadership of health care, he gives speeches and goes on TV. He can’t write legislation. He didn’t do it in the Senate. He didn’t show up to work much when he was in local office, when he worked for ACORN, when he was editor of the law review or when he was in college. Most likely, Bill Ayers wrote most of his book.

Besides the people who were duped by the slick advertising, the ones who believed his post-racialism and the liberals who thought he was going to support their agenda, there is yet another group that may be turning on him. People want him to get to work. He’s  turned the UN into a week-long event in a presidency that is about 33 weeks old. I don’t know if I want that. I just want to know what made him qualified to do anything.

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