Superman

This weekend I saw Obama as Superman gracing the sidewalk. As I kept looking at this, I wondered what the artist was trying to say.

Is Obama a larger than life hero? Do we need a superhero to get us out of this mess?

Perhaps this artist made obvious to us what we need now - a leader who can leap tall issues in a single bound, who can repair an economy that's dropping as quickly as a speeding bullet. Then again, it actually doesn't matter what the artist was trying to say - he got my attention and isn't that what art is all about - getting our attention and causing us to think?

Perhaps if we'd been thinking more clearly in the past, we wouldn't have gotten ourselves into this mess in the first place. And our superheros wouldn't need to inhabit the Oval Office to keep our country the best place on Earth to live.