Lame Duck

On the defense the other day Obama uttered, "I am not an ideologue. I’m not." To most of us this is laughable. But BO did not mean it as a lie. He believes it. To understand why is to understand the disconnect and the implosion of this presidency.

David Brooks lamented recently that the public has turned against the "educated classes" and what they stand for, which we know is race/class/gender/appeasement/moral equivalency politics. The "educated classes" were a component of FDR’s cabinet; after the war they were head and toe major apologists for the Soviets, fans of the utopia of communism. They thought Truman was just too dumb to understand. Instead he cut their legs off. They still didn't get it.

Neither does Obama. That’s why he can say, "I’m not an ideologue," straight faced.

Most of us Americans don’t often reflect on this bunch; they don’t work, they’re not much fun, they’re not real, they’re not like us; they're isolated from a functioning America, isolated from most Americans, drunk on ideas which sound just dandy but cause failure and misery every time they become policy. These individuals share in one key trait - that there is no such thing as too much government and that it is they who are the anointed, rich in intellect and given to superior moral judgement, placed among us mortals as disciples of sorts, willing to serve until the rest of us are led off the cliff.

This is why Obama can apologize in the State of the Union (with barely disguised cynicism) "for not explaining health care more clearly to the American people." The subject he noted was "complex." Just too, too complex that is for most of us to get it right away.

BO said he will stick with health care, go after cap and trade with renewed vigor, launch another stimulus bill and turn college education, as Krauthammer noted, "into a federal entitlement." Most of us thought, "Are you kidding me?" Reasonable Americans don’t want any of this nonsense. But BO thinks its good for us. We're simply too stupid to make the connection.

So we don't have to ponder any further why this administration is committing suicide and sacrificing its own kind in the process.

A lame duck president in just one year.

Robert Craven