Whoever coined the phrase "It's lonely at the top" clearly wasn't thinking of the job of President of the United States. In the case of Obama, our esteemed Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones, it could hardly be less lonely. He lurks in the focal point of America's vast mass media apparatus and much of his appeal seems largely aesthetic when not mundane. He'll grin, he'll give pretty speeches specially designed to intoxicate while leaving every major issue unresolved. He goes out to eat and it's a national event.

Yet somehow, the all powerful media never penetrates deep enough even in the case of the Free World's most powerful man. The never ending television coverage is but a sublime orbit connecting the dots of every superficiality; every handshake, pat on the back and parlor trick without ever answering the question: just what will we do about the crisis we're in? Like impending death, that's the subject never dealt with least we forget to be entertained. Everything asked on TV comes with a prepackaged answer. The point is to enjoy being talked at and told what to think and, more often than not, simply to enjoy every possible diversion while being reassured the world's in someone else's hands so one need not know it. The highest office in the land may well be TV executive. Where would Obama be without their leading an uneducated public by the hand?