I agree with much of what you say. And I've spent some time wondering if 0bama is the kind of guy that would kill himself taking down this country. I think he might be the type but I'm not sure.
But ultimately I think his Achilles heel is that he is so self-centered, so self-promoting, that all the weirdness he is causing is so clearly associated with him *personally* and NOT with the United States of America. Even the international types can see it. It's not in America's real character to behave this way. This is Barry's doing. When he's gone the world will assume that the US will go back to being the US for better or worse. They may even respect us a bit more having had such a bad example set for them in the little b@sstard-in-chief.
Achilles was a hero, a sterling character, a great man. A legend, but one with somewhere a basis in reality.
Obama is not. But like Achilles, Obama is a man of his time. A man who characterizes his time, a zeitgeist — a spirit of his time. Of our time.
I have no fondness for being a soul and man caught in these times of a Bill Clinton and now an Obama. Yet I should, I must find that way to be fond of our time. To find the proper joy — there is the duty, there is life. Are we measured by those men? I refuse to be, and yet here I am caught in waxing on about a man like an Obama, about Obama and his times.
Make these our times, not his. Paul, you are more a man of these times than Obama or Clinton. I thank you and I thank EVERY Freeper for being the real men and women of OUR times. We are the REAL zeitgeist. Our spirit, by the grace of our dear G-d, shall be for life and for the good memory of those to follow.