Fifteen Minute Salvation

The dinosaur media heralded a golf outing yesterday involving President Barack Hussein Obama and New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg not as a frivolous bit of sport between two overgrown egos but as something more. Before the match, our President and the billionaire mayor conferred on the economic crisis for all of a quarter hour. If that did not elevate the mood of the nation and cause the markets to soar, nothing would. Such brilliant luminaries, whose intellect and force of character are seldom matched and never eclipsed, brightening the sullen firmament and selflessly devoting themselves for fifteen arduous minutes of hard thought shared on healing the vast economic dislocation- I am sure every unemployed American is unspeakably grateful that two so high would stoop to consider the plight of all we lesser lights. How lucky should we consider ourselves to have such unfettered genius toiling on our behalf to illuminate our horizon? The event is reminiscent of the "working groups" President Obama summoned to the White House last year to solve the nation's economic woes by hashing over cures for a day. Either the mandarins then gathered knew how to repair exactly nothing or the Obama administration did not implement their suggestions. Either way we must count ourselves fortunate to be the beneficiaries of such collective wisdom. Could the country have ever survived without the super-elite, super-genius of Team Obama and those who would scheme the new collective with him?