The perfect fit.

With BO’s reputation in a free fall, his operatives and compliant media flacks are blaming everyone else, failing to look within. For example, as Bill Thomas in the SF Chronicle reminds us, Bill Maher sees the problem caused because Americans, "are not bright enough to really understand the issues." Hah! The wag Weisberg of Slate whines the fault is due to the, "the childishness, ignorance and growing incoherence of the public at large." Too much.

We recall that the same types had Lincoln as an arm-dragging ape, a buffoon who could not get out of his own way. Hummm?

So history, as it is inclined to do, repeats. To those of us posted in these events, this is entertainment on a grand scale. This is special stuff, is it not? Certainly a portion of the US electorate failed at their scholarship before visiting the voting both last November. There is no question of that. But to claim the masses are ignorant - this is something only Democrats could own. Indeed, it is the perfect fit for this miserable party.

Summary: We have an individual who had not a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected if he were not half black. A dumbing down. First problem. We have an individual who is a Chicago political operative too slick for his own good. Second problem. We have an individual who is self anointed, who thinks he knows what is best for the masses because he learned it in school, then practiced it in the grievance business. Third problem. We have an individual, as we stated in the primary, who does not understand America or Americans. Fourth and final problem.

Trilling warned of these clowns, of what he called the "educated class." "Some paradox of our nature leads us," Trilling wrote, "when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."

Perfect fit.

Thank you Lionel.

Robert Craven