Always right #43:

Old baseball story: A rookie gets sent out to left field and screws up thoroughly, drops balls, misses easy catches, runs the wrong way.

Two innings later the team sends out a very reliable experienced player to left field instead of the rookie. He does no better.

The experienced player coems in at the end of the inning and says “That rookie got left field so screwed up that no one could straighten it out.”

If Obama’s approach goes down in flames it with be W’s fault for screwing up the ME so badly that even The Prince could not fix it.

If the mullah’s thugocracy in Iran falls and democracy arises, it will be credited to Obama. The fact that even people like Fred Thompson are saying on the radio “Boy , we never saw this coming.” ensures that.

I would like to have called Fred and said “This is like a Republican President being elected in November 1944, getting sworn in in Jan 1945 and saying “Howthell did we end up with all these troops of ours in France, Belgium, Czechlovokia, and Germany? Nobody saw that coming!” And indeed, if you ignore 6 Jun 1944 and subsequent events no one would have “seen it coming.”