“And Then Tragically Obama Got Elected”

Victor Davis Hanson writes a year-ender about Barack Obama's Humpty-Dumpty view of the world and the dilemmas and paradoxes he is facing - or not:

And then tragically Obama got elected and discovered that the real world had no relationship whatsoever to his fantasy impressions of it. In a cosmos of radical Islam, Chinese bankers, Japanese exporters, and Arab oil producers, there were no more law school profs, Rev. Wrights, or Chris Matthews and Newsweek editors to wink and nod and reassure Obama that his mellifluous but empty rhetoric allusions were at all reality-based.

As always, Hanson's commentors add invaluable insights. Like this:

Seems to me Mr. Obama is much more interested in the interests of the mandarin class and the destruction of liberty around the world. He and his ilk are far more interested in taking away my rights and my liberty than in defending or expanding them. Go to Honduras, to Iran, to Georgia and Israel and see thou what interests Barack Obama. If I were Taiwanese, I would be dreading now what mean price we will sell them to pay for the financing of bureaucracy and union jobs.