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The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it.
[Reading this related article in its entirety is recommended.]
“There remains the fact of his biography, a man's journey. Personality is doubtless an obstacle to his recovery. The detachment of Mr. Obama need not be dwelled upon at great length, so obvious it is now even to the pundits who had a "tingling sensation" when they beheld him during his astonishing run for office. Nor does Mr. Obama have the suppleness of Bill Clinton, who rose out of the debris of his first two years in the presidency, dusted himself off, walked away from his spouse's radical attempt to remake the country's health-delivery system, and moved to the political center. It is in the nature of charisma that it rises out of thin air, out of need and distress, and then dissipates when the magic fails. The country has had its fill with a scapegoating that knows no end from a president who had vowed to break with recriminations and partisanship. The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it. Slowly, the nation has recovered its poise. There is a widespread sense of unstated embarrassment that a political majority, if only for a moment, fell for the promise of an untested redeemer—a belief alien to the temperament of this so practical and sober a nation.”
— By FOUAD AJAMI, AUGUST 11, 2010 (online.wsj.com)
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston ChurchillWhat rhymes with "obsolescence"? How about "adolescence" and "convalescence", for starters, which could easily be worked into a riff on the title of the above-referenced article. But I fear those words do not rise to the seriousness of the damage this administration has administered to its captive audience — The United States of America. It takes words of wisdom from the likes of Winston Churchill to muster some hope of undoing Obama's malignant "changes".
One thing He deserves credit for: He is thorough. He has thoroughly disgusted anyone who is not hopelessly drunk on Kool-Aid, hopelessly mired in entitlementalia, nor hopelessly and perpetually perplexed. And it's not just His ill-conceived policies that betray traditional American optimism for a better life in succeeding generations. He and His arrogant wife exude the kind of haughty demeanor that even the most oblivious among us strive to mask so as to deflect everyone else's contempt.
It will take a long time to undue His damage to America's livelihood, its fortunes, and its sacred honor. The sooner we start, the better.
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