Upstaging Obama

"I remember clearly when Barack Obama was getting ready to take the helm. He was so impressed with himself, he insisted upon being called President Elect Barack Obama."

A minor headline in one of the news sources I was looking at last night. "Obama White House feeling upstaged by Trump." When I first read that, I thought it was dripping with profundity. Kind of like water is wet. Maybe some of President Obama's handlers should tell him the awful news - the current President and his Administration are old news. Soon to be past tense. Stale as yesterday's newspaper.

I remember clearly when Barack Obama was getting ready to take the helm. He was so impressed with himself, he insisted upon being called President Elect Barack Obama. His team even made him an emblem to put on his podium. It got so nauseating that one of the the local radio hosts started calling him "PEBO" (President Elect Barack Obama). President Bush (43) was on his way out and he was very gracious in his exit. If he did ever feel "upstaged" by Obama, he never showed it.

Here are the facts of life. As President, once the election is over and you are about to exit stage left, you primary duty is to make the transition of the new President as smooth as possible. That is it. Oh, also to "keep the wheels on the country" until January 20th. Other than that, the outgoing President is the lamest of ducks.

However, our current President has one enormous thing working against him. And that be his enormous ego. In fact, rumor has it he is not really going to exit after all. He is going to set up shop in the D.C. area and go back to his roots - community organizing. However, there may be an even more sinister motive. Some think he wants to spend his days undermining the Trump Presidency. In other words, be just the opposite of how President Bush (41 or 43) acted when their terms were up.

We are now on the final countdown. Less than a month to go before the swearing in. The Cabinet appointments are filling up, the West Wing Staff is identified, and President Elect Trump already has that POTUS swagger. History books are getting ready to start the next chapter in our nation's history. I for one, think it is going to be a good one.