Nah, I'll blame it on me staying up too long yesterday.

While I understand the sentiment, please tell me how Obama would have controlled the actions of one individual.

A worthy goal.

And now the real challenges can begin...

This is obviously a scam

Any Linux distribution is a hobby OS, if you keep tinkering with it. I have used Manjaro for work for 5 years without any hiccups.
To get things done, focus on that, stop messing around with kernels, drivers, file systems, window managers, etc and you will have no problem with this distro.