Mr. Obama, bring on the change.

Bring on that new dawn of American leadership you say is at hand.

Bring on your soaring rhetoric, your mandate from the media, your party’s near veto-proof legislative majority.

Get down to Washington in January and use your political superpowers to begin solving what you say are “the greatest challenges of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril and the greatest financial crisis in a century.”

Yes you can try.

We your people understand, as you have said, that the road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep and we may not get to wherever very liberal place you’re taking us to as a nation in one year or -- rather conveniently for you -- even in one term.

But we know you and your cronies from the hard-left side of Chicago are already working on where you'll find the money to pay for that generous to-do list of neo-New Deal stuff you’ve been promising your adoring fans for the last two years.

There's a recession on, but yes you can try.

Meanwhile, if you truly want to make America a better place and change the cruddy way things have been done in Washington for the last 60 years by both major political parties, here are a couple of daring ideas to get you warmed up and let you prove that you're more than just talk:

First, you should fulfill your old promise to get us out of Iraq ASAP. And you should do the same with the war in Afghanistan, an even more hopeless quagmire. Despite the hawkish hallucinations you had during the election campaign of winning the war in Afghanistan and capturing bin Laden, Afghanistan also does not deserve to have another American drop of blood or dollar spent on it.

While you’re at it, and if you’re serious about bringing real change, try ratcheting down the bloated warfare state that Republicans and Democrats have built and abused for their political ends. Continued...