The thing about the Left: they keep looking for The Perfect Person. (The Right, on the other hand, keeps trying to create The Proper Process.) (*)

So when Leftoid Policies fail, it’s ALWAYS because either (1) “He was the wrong person for the job”, or (2) “Those evil {fill-in-the-blank: Republicans, conservatives, gun-owners, Bible-thumpers} DELIBERATELY sabotaged our best efforts”. It’s perceived as a personal/ personality/ personnel problem, NEVER as a policy problem.

I believe this is why conservatives are continually astonished that the Left doesn’t acknowledge and modify its obvious double-standards regarding the treatment of Favored and Disfavored groups (“don’t they see that they’ve set a precedent that –when The Other Side is in power– will cause them GREAT harm?”). No, they don’t see/ acknowledge that some “process” might come back to bite them; they see only that The Chosen Leader *needs* the power and authority to Boldly Solve The Problem, consistency be damned.

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(*) Regarding “Proper Process”: see The Constitution as one example. A set of rules and procedures governing an individual’s actions, such that some courses of action are required and other courses of action are prohibited. The Process serves to prevent excessive power from being vested in any one person or group. Completely opposed to the notion that a “Perfect Person” can exist, or can be trusted with power.

re: “…and familiarity breeds contempt–even in the Richard Cohens of this world, who did not have the insight and perceptiveness to understand that they were looking at a smooth-talking BS-artist leftist narcissistic con man in the first place, even though it was pretty obvious.”

What a delightful iridescent pearl of wordsmithery you’ve given of our cultural Mau Mau presidential usurper.

Start with a simple metric. He doubled the national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in seven years. That is an additional $75K per taxpayer. Some of us could write that check but not enough of us to make much difference.

This could turn into an extremely long post, so I’ll just mention that almost everything wrong in the ME can be traced back to his tacit support for the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots.

I go with the “this is a feature, not a bug” theory. Obama is attempting to reduce American power and he has succeeded beyond Bill Ayer’s wildest dreams.

The leftist movement eventually marches over the ledge. Along the great march they create carnage with tens of millions of human carcasses littering the roadside . They repeat ground hog day into infinity. Why? Because they need a dear leader, and thousands are waiting off stage to strut like a stalin, hitler, mao, obama, fidel, etc.

He was replaced by an evil-doer.He is not the only one. Merkel is another.
Leftist pacifists now run the national shows on three continents. Pope Francis is in their number. It is a tsunami.
Hollande drops 20 bombs on ISIS after the murder of 130 French citizens, and probably didn’t kill 20 of the enemy. Iran and Russia are an unholy but powerful, savvy anti-Israel alliance.

It is unlikely we will be able to pull ourselves out of the morass into which we have been thrust by our enemies both foreign and domestic, the same morass into which we have by passivity allowed ourselves to sink.