You know I’ve been thinking about Ann Althouse’s question today:
But Obama should be setting off positive fantasies around the world. That’s what he said he’d do. That’s what those of us who voted for him believed he would do. Come on! Where’s the magic?
What has happened reality has happened. Think of it this way.
Vincent LaGuardia Gambini as the real World
Do you remember this guy? This is Vincent LaGuardia Gambini. He is Alakazam’s worst nightmare. he is the one who spots every trick, sees right through them. You can’t pull the wool over his eyes and he declares proudly:
Nobody – I mean nobody – pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini, especially this one.
The entire Obama phenomenon has been a magic trick. You have a guy who won his primaries by getting his opponent’s off the ballot, Who won his senate seat due to another scandal that knocked the incumbent Senator Jack Ryan off the ballot. Who didn’t even serve a single term before running for president. Who faced an adoring press that fawned over him, who played the race card against Bill Clinton and who used tactics against Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin that reeked of misogyny.
And after the election we still see comics unable unwilling to make a joke about a president who can’t even announce a cabinet position without a teleprompter.
All of this might be fine for getting elected but once elected one has to govern. From Russia, to North Korea, to Syria, to Iran, to the stock market, to the banks, reality is intruding on the magic tricks. He can’t even make nice with our friends.
Gambini has him on the stand asking if he is sure about those five minutes. He doesn’t have an answer. It looks like some of us may have been mistaken.
