As IF Times

link Britney Spears accused of sexual harassment – Yahoo! Canada News.

How did men become such weenies?  If you’re in the bodyguard business, that implies you must be prepared to risk possible bodily harm during the course of performing your job.  Presumably, you’d be physically capable of moving unwanted people aside while protecting your client.  This poor guy was not prepared for the rigors of guarding Miss Spears.  The paparazzi, the fans, ok, but to have to look at her naked, well apparently, that was too much.   Mr. Fernando Flores is,

“…accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him…”

 Where did Britney hire this guy from?  The Pee Wee Herman bodyguard agency?   We’ll assume our hero was not an ex military type but rather a pool cleaner perhaps who thought that being a bodyguard would be a better career path.  That being the case, he was probably looking to fill in the shoes left behind by the former Mr. Spears.  We all remember Kevin Federline who somehow managed to carve off a big slice of Britney’s dough without any evidence of redeeming value or good taste.  You have to give Flores credit for trying I suppose.

This guy is mildly retarded and a weasel. If he thinks seeing Miss Spears naked is stressful, he obviously has never worked for Rosie O’Donnell or Joy Behar.  He’s must be looking to make a career change since I can’t imagine there are hordes of clients out there willing to hire someone who can’t handle the stress of viewing a nude pop star.  If he wants to sue because he was exposed to Britney’s privates, then the whole world has a potential class action lawsuit in the works. 

As usual, I blame the lawyers.  Mr.  Flores somehow managed to corral a lawyer while on a break from chasing ambulances and convinced him/her that Flores had been heinously violated.  Sensing fame and possibly a big fee for telling their story, off to court they go.  They are off to feed on the biggest source of ‘success’ today, fame and notoriety.  In place of producing anything meaningful, the path taken by many is just fame for the sake of fame.  This is all encouraged by the popular media who need fodder for their sensationalist headlines.  How many times can you write about Angelina fuming at Brad anyway?  Or Lindsay in rehab episode 14.  

Maybe this is all a ruse to get into show business.  I’m sure there will be a tell-all book, which leads to a movie and possibly a Broadway musical and a reality show.  Maybe he’s not that dumb.  However, in the immortal wail of the famous You-Tube geek, “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!”

link Peggy Noonan: We Just Dont Understand – WSJ.com.

It ain’t him.  It’s the people.  When the candidate was first thrust into the larger public eye from the village politics of Illinois, he was immediately acclaimed to have the skill set and accomplishments of someone twice his age and experience.  In his own words, the rise of the oceans would slow, the earth would begin to heal yada yada yada.  Using a baseball analogy, he was a closer who was also expected to field balls and hit home runs as well.  Naturally, he is doomed to failure since he is only good at one small aspect of the game.

Barely two years after the coronation, even the ardent supporters are moving away from their blind support of the incumbent.  The 26 people who still watch David Letterman heard his wisecrack about the ‘one term president’ recently.  What changed?  It’s not as if the job description changed.  Put simply, our guy was never qualified for the job in the first place.  Without benefit of ANY meaningful business or administrative experience, the complex decisions that have to be considered as leader of the free world has left him floundering because of poor experience and poorer advisers. 

A perfect storm of disillusionment with the former President, the enormous influence of Oprah which mobilized an historically quiet demographic, a stalling economy and an extremely partisan media brought someone into office without sufficient scrutiny of his character.  Rather, all the various groups that supported his candidacy projected upon him their own versions of what kind of person he was.   The 1979 movie, Being There  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There) , featured Peter Sellers as a simple gardener, but was considered by his high society employer as some kind of savant because of his pithy and earthy responses to complex questions, eventually providing advice to the President of the United States.  A bitingly satirical movie has turned into real life only decades later.

Lots of barbs have been thrown at the President and that is expected of any politician.  Some criticisms are certainly deserved but many criticisms from his own fold are likely projections of disappointment by the people who had unrealistic expectations of his ability.  He just happened to be in the right spot at the time.  As is now obvious, talking is the easy part; the hard part is the doing.  Being there isn’t enough.  The President is not responsible for disappointing people; the people can only be disappointed with themselves.