MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON; HIS KIDS GO TO SIDWELL

”But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
He’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes…”

That 1959 song as rendered by Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, comes to mind lately as we head toward a new national administration in two weeks. “High Hopes” was a ditty about a lowly ant moving a rubber tree plant, a prodigious challenge for any ant, but he amazingly succeeds in moving that plant.

Expectations are high, virtually through the White House roof, as Mr. Obama goes to Washington. They’re almost as high as an elephant’s eye and most Americans wish him the best of luck, even more than Mr. Smith had. He’ll need all the luck he can get, not for moving rubber tree plants but for moving the nation forward in very trying times. He’ll need luck just to get through Inauguration Day.

Inauguration Day should find, at the minimum, a few gazillion of his followers in D.C. waiting to catch and record his every word, to memorize and recall for their descendants and for general posterity his sage reflections delivered, with soaring rhetoric, on the future of the United States of America. Word is, Michelle Obama may feel proud of her country for the second time in her life!

Where Barack’s many disciples will find space to view or hear him is somewhat problematic, as is the question of where they will rest their weary heads following all the festivities and Inaugural Balls but, hey, if Jesus could feed multitudes with a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish, surely Obama will figure a way to feed and house his millions of minions.

It’s good to know that he had a great Christmas, holiday, vacation in the land of his birth, Hawaii. Considering the campaign drain, the state of the economy, the state of the nation, and the state of disorder the planet is in of late, Obama must really have needed an extended break in a multi-million dollar retreat to gather all his personal resources. He will need all his vaunted energy and charisma to deal with the problems of the universe.

It’s also a good thing that Obama has had little to say of late, and that Michelle has had less, since, as the President-elect has kept reminding us for weeks, the nation only has one president, (and one first lady), at a time. That’s been a selective mantra ...

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