Some Might Call It "Working"

On the occasions that I've found myself seeking employment, my college-educated, bourgeois* self gravitates to white-collar jobs that require writing in some form. Copywriting is close enough for my job needs, and I almost always settle for that.

In their job listings, these positions usually call for a willingness to work under deadlines, the ability to multitask, and all of those other qualifiers included in most job descriptions.

So yeah, I'm fairly used to multitasking.

In the past day or so, TPM has drawn some attention to what may be the newest attack (from the right) on President Barack Obama: He's doing too much at once!

Well, hell, people. It's called a job. He's the "leader of the free world." I'm assuming that there are a lot of daily tasks - short and long-term ones - that make up a typical day. I would hope that he can do some of them. Maybe even a lot of them. I mean, if multitasking is part of my job description, it sure as shit is part of the President's.

How little were we expecting from President Bush that the complaint about Obama is that he's trying too hard?



[* I just want to give some props to the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, which includes this fine "word note" from Zadie Smith (and is also featured on the back cover jacket, where I read it first) with regard to bourgeois:

When using this word it is essential to remember that it is completely bourgeois to say of something or someone "How bourgeois." If you do not mind this inference, then the word is at your disposal.

Thank you, Zadie Smith. I do not mind the inference. Not one bit.]