JAB nails this one perfectly.

Your Czarness,

As you doubtless know, I read the lofty writings emanating from the Castle every single, solitary day.

I also read Mr. Puter’s postings. [Ba-dum-bump!—ed]

So naturally I read and committed to memory your recommended to-do-list for the President. In your rebuttal to CNN’s “don’t worry, be happy” blathering, Your Czarness pointed out that the President seems to hate his job. Of course you were correct, as behooves one of such exalted station. However, it really should come as no surprise. He is now about two years into the job, and he’s never had to stick around much longer than that for any of his old “jobs.” He went from Columbia to a brief stint in the private sector, then it was off to organize the community in Chicago. When it became apparent that the neighborhoods he was organizing, would not get with the plan and stay organized, then he headed back to the friendly confines of the Ivy League. After Harvard, which was great and all, he went back to Chicago where he got a job in a law firm and also a gig giving the occasional lecture to University of Chicago law students. Then he started running for office. Now, that one he has stuck with! But he didn’t grind his way up the ladder to make partner at the law firm. And he was not tenure-track at the U of C, so he didn’t have to worry about academia’s tedious “publish or perish” rules. His record is not one of quiet determination and fortitude.

Of course, he doesn’t like us. Why should he? He has no experiences in common with the unwashed masses. He’s never had to stick it out in a crappy job with a jerk for a boss. He’s never broken a sweat or had blisters on his hand as a result of actual work. Maybe at the gym, but certainly not on account of manual labor.

If we are not as sophisticated, erudite, and learned as he, surely, surely we ought to at least have the decency to recognize our inferiority, right? And yet most of us don’t want to be like him. Which must be pretty near inconceivable. Weren’t we supposed to already be transformed just like those “organized” Chicago neighborhoods? Ingrates….
And he’s being blamed, sometimes unfairly, for lots of stuff. Things are not going the way he wants, but he’s got to put up with this for another 2 years. So there he sits in a gilded cage of his own choosing. And he ain’t too happy with the view.

yours from the doublewide, JAB

Courtesy Borepatch.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.