President Obama

George Will and John Podhoretz have now both done columns assuring us that Obama is a flash in the pan. I wish I could believe that. Everything I've heard about him tells me that he's pretty much an unknown quantity, with very little experience in Washington, foreign policy or any executive office, but none of those will disqualify him for the likes of Jon Stewart. Those crowds coming to his speeches have already concluded that he's the Second Coming of JFK, even though JFK was never really JFK.

The Wall Street Journal reports that its latest poll shows that 49% of the public wants Congress to assume control of foreign policy. They're impatient with the slow progress in Iraq. It they think it's going slow now, wait until Congress starts trying to manage it. Imagine an entire legislature of John McCain's posing as conflicted and anxious to do right even as they espouse opposing policies, and after a lot of timewasting posturing, compromise on something that has the worst aspects of all proposed solutions.

Sigh. America has become too stupid to defend itself.