This is a blog that’s going to chronicle what Barack Obama does right. I started it because I know, though it’s only January 19th as I write this, that he’ll disappoint people and disillusion them and make them cry salty tears of regret and rage. No, really. The idea for it came when he got elected. I thought, “If he does nothing else, he’s finally broken the color barrier for the presidency of the United States.” And then, amid murmurs of pre-disappointment disappointment, during the Holder confirmation hearings, I thought, “If he does nothing else, he nominated a man who said publicly that waterboarding is torture.” And I realized: Someone needs to say this every day because people are going to be crapping all over him. So every day I’m going to say one good thing Barack Obama does to remind us why we voted for him and not John McCain. I’ll also talk about politics of the presidency generally.
I’m an editor for a newspaper in Philadelphia who’s worked in criminal justice and the mental health system. I also did human resources for a nanny agency, but that’s another story.
