Looking askance

Steven Den Beste, who I think of as the dean of conservative realists in the blogosphere, pretty much speaks for me:

"I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn’t respond to benign behavior benignly. But there’s another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they’re going to find out what they bought. Obama isn’t what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover."

The gullible are congratulating Barry for "his brilliant campaign." They are presuming, against all evidence, that he will govern as a bi-partisan centrist. They’ve already forgotten the fellow who flipped the bird to Hillary and Mac, and called Sarah a pig. Who helped ACORN commit vote fraud, intentionally gathered illegal foreign contributions, and etc., ad nauseum.

But me, I’m going to skip derangement and just look askance, stop writing about politics unless it affects me personally, as in whether Barry’s coming tax and electricity hikes actually cost me money. Otherwise, I’m going to get back to the original war-supporting, eclectic intentions of this blog.

I’m taking my Holiday from History. Adios. Good luck. You’re going to need it.

UPDATE: Well, that’s a promise I’m not likely to able to keep. And to give the devil his due, here’s a transcript of Barry’s victory speech which I finally got around to reading. It’s very Democrat, with all the historical Democrat tropes familiar to supporters of FDR and Truman, Carter and Clinton. Maybe he means it. We’re going to find out.