When Nixon visited China in his great breakthrough of 1972 he asked the elegant and sophisticated Foreign Minister, Chou En-lai, his opinion of the French Revolution (1789), Chou said it was too early to tell. Exactly the attitude President Obama and his Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, deserve from us. Two months in office doesn't ripple the surface of time. Even John McCain has come to Geithner's support saying, "Let him succeed." Obama says that if Tim wanted to resign today he would refuse to accept it.
I noticed how Barack Obama sat in the guest seat on Leno's show the other night: except for hand and arm gestures, his body was still and perfectly relaxed, as if he were in his own living room. If the President is calm in this storm, and believes Geithner is the right guy to be at his side, let's all pull back a bit and let them do their jobs. Are they on the right course? It's too soon to tell.
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