It is funny: I often get this image of Obama and his advisors–I think his handlers, the people who put him there, are now out looking for new talent to reverse the damage he has done their cause–sitting around a table brainstorming ways to get his poll numbers up. And what is funny is that they quite literally think in cartoons.
One: What about a war? Conservatives love wars.
Other: But where? It can’t last too long.
First: How about Libya? All those Reagan era fascist neocons hate Gaddafi.
Obama: we’ll do it. It CAN’T fail. This is me we’re talking about.
The way to think about Obama, in many respects, is as Bolt the Wonderdog, who has led a sheltered life, in which everyone everywhere has been telling him how wonderful he is, with no justification. He didn’t write his book, almost certainly, and all he did to get elected was read speeches like an actor, and outperform a very weak John McCain in debate, at that with questioners sympathetic to him.
The interesting thing is that all these people define conservatives solely in cliched terms; because they themselves do not operate on the basis of principle, they assume that the falsehoods they spread about us are actually true.