Obama on the Couch

Quin Hilyer at the American Spectator takes a look at Obama’s character:

There is something way off balance in the character of Barack Obama. Something in the realm of zealotry, with a touch of megalomania, and perhaps an authoritarian impulse too. He combines Alinskyite tactics and outlook with an air of self-assumed moral superiority in a way that fails to respect the usual, small 'r' republican limits on American presidents. All presidents, of course, think at some level that they know best about policy choices. But almost none of them (Woodrow Wilson perhaps excepted) were so willing to disdain, in pursuit of such radical policy upheavals, such intense and overwhelming public opinion as has been evident in the current health takeover attempt.

It has long been my belief that there’s something a little out of whack with most people who enter politics; but the degree to which the bubble-level of reason shows this president’s character and ideology to be out of synch with the wishes of the American people is indeed unprecedented. Hilyer is right:

This is not the way the system is supposed to work. This is not the American government we grew up with. This is not the national ethos that we love.

Yet Obama pushes on, perfectly cognizant of what he's doing, intentionally upending the American Way. This is a form of mania -- megalo- or otherwise. And, by any and all legitimate means, it must be stopped.

On a somewhat related subject, Glenn Reynolds and Ed Morrissey wonder if American democracy has become like Schlitz beer.