"... it does often seem that for the average liberal it's not the case that the Obama presidency has been a near perfect manifestation of imperfection, of gross incompetence being guided by abject foolishness and the sentimental arrogance of a hollow and misplaced idealism... but rather it is that the brilliance of the man has been undone by the irrational constraints of democracy and consensual representation that have kept him from doing what he thought right regardless of what the lowly represented might think of his intentions... you almost start to admire the prodigious and unshakeable reach of their denial, the self sustaining ignorance of their delusion... I do swear that if you were to give these people a choice between democracy as the Founders imagined it and a monarchy with Obama as regent many would choose the latter, some without even having to think about it... but hell, who knows, maybe in a sense they're right... after all, pretty damn hard to defend an institution that gave us Bush and then, adding insult to injury, the empty and enfeebling grandeur of Dear Leader's court..."
