WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR 15 MINUTES ARE UP BUT YOU STILL HAVE FOUR YEARS TO SERVE?:

Everything Bad Is Good Again (GAIL COLLINS, 3/26/09, NY Times)

National Consensus Update: [...]

Barack Obama — Kinda boring. Did you see the news conference? Same thing over and over again. Not that we mind. In these troubled times, we like stability. Thank God we didn’t elect somebody who was all charisma and exciting speeches. [...]

[T]here appear to be only two constants in our ever-changing world. One is that Barack Obama is going to be on television every day forever. No venue is too strange. Soon, he’ll be on “Dancing With the Stars” (“And now, doing the Health Care, Energy and Education tango ...”) or delivering the weather report. (“Here we see a wave of systemic change, moving across the nation ...”)