Barack Obama has been President-elect for little more than a week. Giving him a day to celebrate after the results came in, it is officially one week since he should have been starting to make everything wonderful.

Where’s this wonderful?

Sure, appointing the Capitol Hill pitbull Rham Emmanuel as his chief-of-staff was nice. He’s a mover and a shaker and isn’t afraid to beat the living shit out of you and your family to get a bill passed, but that kind of fun only goes so far. Joe Lieberman hasn’t been hoisted on his petard(regardless as to what a “petard” actually is, Lieberman more than deserves to be hoisted on it, I assure you) and Sarah Palin is still allowed to roam outside of the boundaries of Alaska. This is not the kind of Obama pre-Presidency that we had all been led to believe would happen.

Sure, he’s supposedly already working on plans to shut down Guantanamo and he’s met with the still-President Bush (probably just to measure the drapes) but I wanted more. I was led to believe that we’d all be living in harmony and peace, the Iraq war would instantly end and all of us would get high-paying “green” jobs. As it stands, peace is still a glint on the horizon, harmony is on hold due to the passing of Prop 8 in California, the Iraq war rages on (for now) and I haven’t seen the Jolly Green Giant installing any wind turbines anywhere.

Is it too late to take my vote back. At least with Bob Barr, we’d have a wonderful mustache to look at. Had McCain and Palin won, the Daily Show wouldn’t suddenly be boring and listless.

I don’t know, maybe he’ll turn it around, but I’m skeptical until proven otherwise.