State of the Union v. Lost: SoTU Lost

I tried watching the show "Lost" a couple times, but the title pretty accurately summed up my experience in watching it. Now, replete with the Lost cast appearing Christ-like/Apostolic at the Last Supper, the season premier promises to sate those less-confused viewers who have long proposed that the story is about the Bible, Heaven and Hell.

Anyway, until today, it appeared as if the Lost Supper was going to be preempted by a slightly postponed State of the Union. In the choreographed production that almost all States of the Union tend to be, and the sermon-on-the-mount that virtually every Obama speech attempts to be, this speech, this appearance requires a prop, Holy Grail-like, to make the masses swoon in awe upon seeing it in The One's hands. That Holy Grail, still being hammered out in the bowels (lower colon probably) of the Capitol, is of course the so-called "Health Care Reform" bill. Unless the combined bill is reduced in weight by several stone, I don't think he'll be able to lift it but I'm guessing someone in the Hollywood propmakers union will craft a hollow shell of the bill (which would be a vast improvement) that he can hoist for visual effect. (And for which Nanc-in-the-Box can pop like the weasel).

Thankfully, all this hand-wringing is for not since cooler minds prevailed and this annoying little Constitutionally-mandated address to Congress and the nation about the senior elected official's plans for us won't eclipse something that is apparently far more important to so many.

I'm not part of the group who thought Obama was about to trample the Constitution here (he wasn't...at least not by moving the SoTU), nor the much larger bunch whose Feb 2 evening TV viewing plans disrupted to the point of needing grief counselors for an urgent psychotherapeutic intervention. But it does tell us something, doesn't it, when people are more concerned about a season premier (or for that matter a football game or NASCAR race, to be fair) than they are an annual address from the President/Commander in Chief. In a year when we have two ongoing wars, where we, by pure luck avoided another mass killing of civilians at the hands of yet another Islamo-Facist, where our national health care system is teetering on the edge of a canyon littered with the carcasses of failed government programs and where unemployment continues unabated while the least business-friendly legislature and administration in memory continues unabashed, shouldn't something like a popular (to some) television show take a momentary back seat? Can you imagine our grandparents (great-grandparents for you younger readers) huddled around the family radio as President Roosevelt started to provide news from the war with grandpa crying "Hey! Where's my Jack Benny?!!!"

Is it any wonder we elect people like those who are currently making the state of our union...lost?