Obama is a success as a slick-talking bloke who deals in glittering generalities when he’s spoon-fed them by electronic means. He also has the most dedicated support media since Pravda swooned over Stalin.

Out here in the west, we range from skeptical to suspicious to downright hostile to slick talkers who mouth glittering generalities followed by ‘sign here’ or ‘vote for me’.

And excuse me, but he’s not a great orator, because he can’t get past his announcement that he’s not only FOR good, but AGAINST evil. Without specific goals, and the logic to support them, and the specific means to attain them, he might be a fine TV host – but a national leader he’s most certainly not. And the crowd of crooks who he’s dragged in from Chicago, who fetch and carry and act as enforcers for him, are hair-raising in their obvious intent to ignore the general welfare of U.S. citizens in favor of tribal warfare of their ‘good’ insiders against the ‘evil’ others.

This is very bad news, as long as all those Pravdas continue furnishing high-fashion clothes for our nekkid Emperor, and continue flaming those evil others. Guard your remaining valuables, and ready the tar and feathers.