[goldstategop]

I keep thinking of the famous lines by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley on Ozymandias:

And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

That's Obama's fate and its a fitting one, indeed as we contemplate the political wreckage of his presidency.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

Exactly. Shelley was so prescient.