Not a Bug, But a Feature

Pat Austin at And So it Goes in Shreveport thinks that Obama isn't simply saddled with a poor vetting model; the president knows exactly who these people are, and exactly what he's doing. I tend to agree; that the appointment of so many alienated radicals could be some kind of "mistake" is not tenable. It is, of course, quite possible that Obama sees them as mainstream, especially given his own obvious alienation from America's history and traditions, and it is certainly within the realm of possibility (indeed, probability) that his arrogant insularity has led to a situation in which he thinks that he, himself, represents a centrist ideology. If Bill Clinton was the first "black" president, then Obama is easily the first European socialist president of the U.S.