How is the presidency like an NFL Super Bowl contender?

Every team in the NFL starts the season undefeated. Most of the fan bases in the NFL start the season believing that their team will make the playoffs and once in the playoffs who knows, maybe the Super Bowl and once in the Super Bowl who knows, maybe Super Bowl champs.

Well team Obama is ready to take the field and the team’s base is all decked out in BHO hats, shirts, sunglasses, shorts, under shorts, BHO socks, shoes, watches, braces, BHO coolers, cups, cozies, pennants, BHO seat cushions, rings, body piercing and instead of the usual body paint BHO fans have actually gone out and had themselves tattooed.

Before the first snap of the season, slavish media whores are proclaiming team Obama the greatest team ever, unbeatable, and question why the season should even be played out – just crown them and move on. The media does this in spite of pre-season missteps with a lying cheat at Treasury and a Chicago thug as Chief of Staff.

Well that’s how the NFL season starts. Every team is undefeated. But after week one almost always, 50% are one game back in their perspective divisions. By mid-season about half of the team’s playoff hopes are dead or on life support.

So if you’re a Bengals fan, you start off with high hopes, but by game four of the season you’re looking forward to the tailgate party more than the game.

What the MSM’s adoration of Obama has done is to set expectation so high that there is no where to go but down. Take the inaugural as a microcosm. Obama’s speech was pedestrian at best. The “poem” – if anyone with a brain can call it that - was absolute crap. The benediction was a bit of racist BS of worthy Rev. Wright tidied up with “give me three Amen’s” at the end. Apparently for a preacher, saying Amen at the end of a racist prayer is akin to an enlisted man saying, “with all due respect sir” before saying something disrespectful.

But where is the diehard fan who has invested everything in his team to go? Nowhere. You make excuses. When the team loses, it was the refs fault. When the candidate delivers a dud of speech at his inauguration, count on the MSM to tell you how great it was. When the team fumbles, you holler to bench the running back. When a "poem" is presented that makes no sense to anyone, you count on the MSM to tell us only those truly in touch with the American spirit would understand the poem. When the offence can’t move the ball, you call for a new offensive coordinator. When the preacher dabbles in racism at the benediction, you hear Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee and Al Sharpton shout, DAMN RIGHT!

Oh yeah, and how about that oath? Having been on both sides of many oath readings, let me tell you it doesn’t matter who screws up, you just keep going. If the reader screws up, the receiver has two choices, say the right words or simply repeat what was presented. The worst choice is to stop, back up, talk over one another, stumble and stammer. Also, the presenter is always right. Why? Because the receiver is supposed to “repeat after me.”

Last, best line of the day: The incomparable Mark Steyn had the best line of the day when commenting on Obama’s “wafer thin resume.” Steyn said words to the effect: “Community organizer? I don’t even know what that is. I’ve never lived in a community that needed an organizer. I’m not sure I’d even want to live in a community that needed an organizer. I suppose if your community needs an organizer, that means you live in a failed community.”