It’s Barack Obama’s Cloud Cuckoo-Land and We Just Live In It

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/ ^ | January 23rd, 2015 | by Michael Walsh

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It’s easy to despise Barack Hussein Obama, perhaps the least qualified man ever to accede to the Oval Office. The empty resume, the imaginary biographies, the laziness, the arrogance, the profligacy with the public treasury, the weakness, the cowardice and the cringing servility when dealing with America’s enemies abroad: his six years as president of the United States — a presidency we will all look back upon someday with wonder, shame and national embarrassment — have been as disastrous and harmful as some of us predicted at the time. The man is a disgrace.

And yet… There is one thing, and one thing only, to like about him. And that is his complete and utter contempt for his domestic political enemies and the high-handedness with which he treats them. As Yuval Levin noted in a post over at NRO after the State of the Union speech, Obama acts as if the electorate had not just delivered his party a crushing rebuke in an election in which he said quite clearly that while he may not have been on the ballot, his policies most certainly were. (Not that he cares about what happens to the Democrats after he retires to a live of Secret Service-protected, taxpayer-supported, think-tank enriched utter indolence.) But he appears to be living in a fantasy land of his own device, one in which he, Barry, remains beloved by the masses who didn’t bother to show up at the polls.

In short, so far, so nuts. But this presupposes that sanity is currently an operative virtue in the American political system. Alas, it’s not; what counts is a ruthless, Nietzschean Will to Power, against which everything else is either nugatory or negotiable. One man’s tilting at windmills and mistaking sheep for enemy soldiers is another man’s Don Quixote, the crazy hero of his own tale who eventually becomes our hero as well. For Obama, the sheep are the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, and as long as he can send them fleeing with just a shake of his mighty rhetorical lance, he must be doing something right.

Now you might think that the beating of the former Senate majority leader, the single most important man to Barack Obama over the past four years, the apparatchik who effectively blocked any attempt at Congressional rollback or oversight of what has become a rogue presidency, might be of interest to the “national media,” that collective of prep-school and college classmates who make up the Praetorian Guard of the Democrat-Media Complex — even if it was an “exercise machine” that administered the beating. (And why, pray tell, is Reid not suing the manufacturer?) But not in the Cloud Cuckoo-Land that we currently inhabit. Whatever you may think of “fundamental transformation,” the fact is that Obama and his media buddies have done their best to make it a reality, even if it is only a Jedi-mind-meld virtual sort of reality that can still be overturned by the one-eyed man (not Harry Reid) who realizes that in the country of the blind he is king. A point I’ve made before: Obama resembles no historical figure more than San Francisco’s Emperor Norton, a bona fide 19th-century Bay Area crackpot to whom everybody paid obeisance but not a whit of attention.

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[WashingtonSource]

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[clearcarbon]

"But he appears to be living in a fantasy land of his own device, one in which he, Barry, remains beloved by the masses who didn’t bother to show up at the polls."

He has a lot of imaginary friends.

[TigersEye]

That was good. Very well said and quite accurate.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Gee, who else has imaginary friends? Why, that resembles Harry Reid and the boy from Searchlight Nevada. And didn't Dick Gephart and BJ Bill Clinton tell stories about people, who had to be imaginary? It's a Democrat Pol thing, you wouldn't understand.

I just think it's a good thing they don't have imaginary friends for every imaginary voter they create.

[Cincinatus]

It’s easy to despise Barack Hussein Obama, perhaps the least qualified man ever to accede to the Oval Office. The empty resume, the imaginary biographies, the laziness, the arrogance, the profligacy with the public treasury, the weakness, the cowardice and the cringing servility when dealing with America’s enemies abroad: his six years as president of the United States — a presidency we will all look back upon someday with wonder, shame and national embarrassment — have been as disastrous and harmful as some of us predicted at the time. The man is a disgrace.

This is probably the finest opening paragraph of an editorial piece that I have ever read. Bravo.

It also happens to be 100% accurate.

[BobP]

Our Composite President is virtually unquantifiable!

Nothing says Obama like Zer0!

[DeaconRed]

"It’s easy to despise Barack Hussein Obama."

Its so easy a cave man could do it.
I don't have any more room for hate for the TURD. My hate bowl is FULL.

[onedoug]

Just what an enemy islamist would do. And he’s nowhere near being finished.

[arthurus]

a presidency we will all look back upon someday with wonder, shame and national embarrassment

Unless 50 years hence the history books are all in Arabic, which is the point of the Obama Sultanate.