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Well I’m not expert. I don’t even play an expert on tv. And I did not stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

But I agree with the premise completely. Here is my take:

Liberals do one thing. Only one thing. Always: That thing liberals do is called “projection”. Attributing to conservatives, the things they are.

Liberals if you will recall, rallied around the flag for about 15 minutes following 9-11, but almost immediately began trying to manipulate America into military defeat in order to weaken Bush.

They see everything as political, care not one bit for America, and in their PR euphoria during the last 24 hours believed in what substitutes for their hearts, this would be their magic issue. To defeat conservatives with.

Not a chance.

My experience today expressing happiness about things to liberals I know, was really strange. Like they were uncomfortable to be on the patriotic side, with me agreeing with them. Very odd.

Liberals I think, expected us to go after Obama on this. They really expected us to be unhappy.

Once they realize they’ve stepped into the patriotic, America first corner and we’re right there agreeing with them.

They’ll scram. No way, do they want to stay there being patriotic with conservatives agreeing with them about a strong America.

They don’t really believe in it, and will become uncomfortable with it very fast.

Just you watch.

If the poll numbers agree with what you like, you believe them.
If the poll numbers disagree with your likes, you disbelieve them.——Ronald Reagan, 1985

“You don’t have to believe in reality. Reality works whether you believe in it or not. Fantasies do not work the same way.”
-—origin uncertain. Recently attributed to Pope Pious, Mark Twain, Newt Gingrich, ....

You are right. Obama already has overplayed his hand, in the first press-conference on the subject, by emphasizing and repeating "I" over and over.

He couldn't help it, for he is a narcissist of the first order. That plays with the liberals because they are cultists by nature (and nurture), but for most normal people it looks, sounds and feels in bad taste, especially as details of how this operation came about - going back many years, and impossible without Bush administration insisting on efforts which were loudly protested as "illegal" and criticized by Obama and liberals - become better known.

As soon as liberals wake up and come down from their euphoria and descend into real life again, they will realize that the chants of "USA! USA!" didn't and won't translate into what they mentally heard in their heads as "Obama! Obama!" That will be some bad hangover.

Faced with dismal poll numbers, Obama is trying to do the only thing he can - replay the Clinton's 1995 OKC bombing script which helped revive Clinton's campaign, but the nature of the terrorism (OKC was considered "domestic" while al-Qaeda is a foreign/international), the economy, world's financial conditions and the mood are different, and he is different from Clinton - more arrogant, supercilious, narcissistic, self-absorbed and less capable of playing and selling triangulation game.

And Clintons were stopped early from damaging the economy with HillaryCare and some other onerous laws and regulations, while ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank FinReg, heavy-handed activism by EPA, DOJ, FCC and other agencies are still with us and are just beginning to do the damage.