Perhaps it is not surprising that in a time when no institution is trusted, and when no principle is shared, we have elected the man we have.

Thus far in his life Obama has stood for nothing and believed nothing. He has bragged about being able to impersonate nothing so acutely and with such lack of detail that others are forced to project onto him a set of beliefs or a personality as if he were a practitioner of that useless school of psychotherapy that requires its shamans to wear black and to blend in with the background so as to be — absent. Obama has managed to achieve so much nothing in his short life that he has had to write not one but two books to contain it all. No means have served to force him into the daylight. Whenever presented with a difficult issue that might reveal his core beliefs he has simply voted “present.” Likewise, no method has been found to persuade his admirers and sycophants in the press to inquire of him as to his true inner nature. They do not wish to shatter the illusion they have created — not of him, but of Him.

And now this cipher, this enigma will lead the most powerful country the world has ever known. The question is… where?