Three Rather Sad Choices for Americans

Watching Obama for his famous hundred days of crypto-nationalization of large swaths of the economy, the great apology tour, the amateurish indecision, the wholly unjustified arrogance, the nasty streak that slips out periodically, the foolish cabinet choices, the abdication of executive power to a corrupt and incompetent Congressional leadership,the bowing and scraping to the inbred barbarian king of the Saudis, the smiling acquiesence to a lecture by the murdering rapist Daniel Ortega (a man who fouls the air today only because of Ronald Reagan's misplaced mercy), one is left with three sad conclusions. The facts being what they are, and televised for all who have eyes to see and the critical faculties to think, Obama is either:

1. Stupid.
2. Incompetent.
3. Actively trying to destroy his own country, and with it, what remains of Western civilization.

Sad.

Why the Pass?

Jonah Goldberg at the NRO asks, not unreasonably, why Obama gets off so easy compared with "the four white guys" who preceded him as teh Democrat's nominee. Goldberg is talking specifically about the criticism that Oboomboom is some kind of world citizen rather than an American, with a point of view centered somewhere between LA and Manhattan, rather somewhere between Prague and Paris. The GOP and much of the press raised the cosmopolitan issue with varying degrees of success about Dukakis, Clinton, Gore and Kerry.

The broader question though is the unprecedented free ride that Obama gets both from the opposing party and from the press on every issue that cuts against him. I'm prepared to wager that no candidate for head of government in any democratic country has ever been elected with so little scrutiny as has Obama.

Obama Cult of Personality Watch 2

Dear Leader wannabe's embryonic cult of personality contiues to develop aided by a compliant media, useful idiots in the conservative camp and a generation of Americans stupified by television and indoctrinated by the academy. First it was Camp Obama, then the adoring German masses, then the obvious and profound contempt for democracy, then the Obama brownshorts (oops, that's brownshirts) at Acorn. Now he's in a middle school literature textbook. Fifteen pages. I'll bet Shakespeare doesn't rate that. He and his bitter half could end up as our own Nicolae and Elena Ceucescu.