I knew from the start he was bad, bad, bad for Israel. You don't cultivate someone like Samantha Power and spend time in Rev. Wright's church - or, for that mater, go vote-hunting in the Palestinian fraternities of Dearborn - without buying into these people's noxious tiers-mondisme. Obama made it clear in his memoirs that Europe was alien to him. When you think about it, it is a negation of everything the Founding Fathers stood for - and it makes a mockery of the hope 'n change thing, because it negates America's positivity.

His incompetence was to be expected, but it's the only saving, er, grace of his benighted administration - if he actually manages to fail passing Obamacare tomorrow with two chambres bleu horizon, it will be a blessing. Of sorts.