Keeping On

Some days you can't win.  Some days are better spent in bed, warm covers up to your nose.  Maybe with a pot of tea at the ready.

But necessity - or ingrained routine, pulls you up and sends you out to keep on keeping on.

At least most of us have the luxury to every now and again stay in bed.  Not so the President.  At least not this President.

On the road again and speaking to a tough and skeptical audience, Mr. Obama seems never to rest.  He's getting a bit grayer and has a little less spring in his step, but he keeps on regardless of how tired he must - at times - be.  

I've not bothered to look at statistics, but my guess is that our current President has already logged more air miles than the last President did in, oh, say, his first four years.  And power naps just don't seem this President's style.

Maybe he's getting some good sleep on Air Force One - it comes equipped with a Presidential 'bedroom' after all.  Or maybe the White House refrigerator is stocked with energy drinks.

Well, wherever he get his energy and drive, I hope he can keep it up.  It pains me to see him so constantly busy.  I can imagine it pains his family too.  But the plain fact is we need him out there doing what he's doing.  Who else can do it?  Who else would want to?

We need him to keep on keeping on...