Obama Orders Lazy College Kids to Stop Being So Lazy  Barack
Obama is on a college kick this week, urging "disengaged"
students to turn out for midterm elections. (Most college
students don't know what these are.) Can he energize these jaded
hippies, who loved him so much in 2008?  The president will hold
a rally at the University of Wisconsin later in the week, but
today, he kicked things off with a conference call to "student
journalists." Ha ha, sucks to be him. Then again, he was
probably able to talk over these non-offending eager beavers and
stay on his message, which was pretty simple: Come on, college.
"Naturally some of the excitement and enthusiasm began to drain
away," Obama said. While his administration has succeeded in
pushing through significant changes in areas such as health care
and student loan funding, it seems to many people "like a lot of
the old politics is still operation."  But the political process
usually involves taking "two steps forward [and] one step back,"
he said. "It's not a