KRAUTHAMMER ANALYZES OBAMA – AT 9:14 A.M. ET:  Charles Krauthammer, who is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, examines the president's latest policies, analyzing the deep intellectual logic behind them.  From Investor's Business Daily:

In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they've habitually attributed to the American right: the paranoid style in U.S. politics.

The talk is of dark conspiracies — secret money, foreign influence, big corporations, with Karl Rove and, yes, Ed Gillespie lurking ominously behind the scenes.

It's the wizard of ooze.

But after trotting out some of these with a noticeable lack of success, President Obama has come up with something new, something less common, something more befitting his stature and intellect. He's now offering a scientific, indeed neurological, explanation for his current political troubles.

The electorate apparently is deranged by its anxieties and fears to the point where it can't think straight.

We've noticed.  People have these weird looks.  We're dying, we're dying.

Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the "facts and science" undergirding ObamaCare and other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.

Those Americans, clinging to their guns and their religion, not to mention their remote controls.

Krauthammer says he has a better explanation:

It's not just the real prospect of financial collapse in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, with even the relatively more stable major countries in severe distress. It is the visible moral collapse of a system that, after two generations of increasing cradle-to-grave infantilization, turns millions of citizens into the streets of France in furious and often violent protest over what? Over raising the retirement age from 60 to 62!

Having seen this display of what can only be called decadence, Obama's perfectly wired electorate says no, not us, not here. The peasants have seen the future — Greece and France — and concluded it doesn't work. Hence their opposition to Obama's transformational New Foundation agenda...

...The story of the last two years is as simple as it is dramatic. It is the epic story of an administration with a highly ideological agenda encountering a rising resistance from the American people over the major question in dispute: the size and reach and power of government and, even more fundamentally, the nature of the American social contract.

Finally...

An adjudication of the question will be rendered on Nov. 2. For the day, the American peasantry will be presiding.

You mean, the gun clingers?  Those same ones? 

Of course, Krauthammer is right.  He almost always is.  The American people don't accept the idea that Obama is a godlike creature.  He's the president, but only for now, something he may not get himself.

October 22, 2010