Shortly after my Aunt Mary moved out of her house I got this glass bowl from her collection and started using it as a change dish about the time Barack Obama became president. Given his slogan, I figured I'd see if I could make it to 2012 and assess whether we saw real change or were hoping for some change to get food. Fortunately for most of us it hasn't gotten that far yet. But as you can see, with the exception of getting a few too many pennies it was almost a perfect fit for four years of change. Aunt Mary died in 2011. She wasn't a big Obama supporter.
And President Obama, since a day like today back in 2009 (scroll down to Inauguration Day at IHS) how did he do with that hopey, changey thingy?
In some ways we've certainly moved in the right direction, but there's a long way to go.
First he announced Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, he came to the administration from Clinton's via a stint of the Federal Reserve Chairman while the banks were collapsing. Maybe his successor, Jack Lew, who came from the administration via a similar route, will change things.
Then there was the statement he made about stopping the seas from rising that got Romney his one highlight of his unsuccessful campaign. I don't think this is what Obama was talking about.
He wanted us to think he could close Guantanamo (where we hold dozens of people without charges much less prosecuting them), stop torture, end two wars and the use of unconstitutional wiretapping. Don't know if he really thought he could or would, but some people thought he was so sincere they gave him an Nobel Peace Prize.
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