I did watch several news shows today. I know I haven't reported on the news shows in a number of weeks, but hey, everyone deserves a break now and then. It isn't like people are beating my door down to hear my opinions. But I post them for posterity.

Basically, the main theme today was to what extent Obama can continue to use the excuse that he "inherted" all these problems and to what extent he has to start assuming some responsibility for conditions in the U.S. It seems there was some kind of broad agreement amongst the pundits that Obama still doesn't have to assume a lion's share of the responsibility for conditions in the country. But, most think that he has stumbled a bit in convincing some of the upper echelon that he has a good plan for getting us out of this. Of course, they want a plan that gets them out of it scott free, regardless of what everyone else is going through. That isn't going to happen.

The other thing is Obama's big thinking approach - whether or not he can pull off taking on multiple of the most controversial issues in Washington at the same time. All the other presidents have crashed and burned trying to take on one social security, one medicare, one energy system, etc. Obama says he has to do it all at once to fix the so-called economic problems in the country. I think he's smart to try it this way. Others agree with me, but some think he will never succeed. We'll see.