Wish fulfillment.

This could be used to describe both the Obama Administrations overall philosophy and the majority of the people that voted for him.
Get rid of the unpleasant Bush, the Republicans, and his successor, McCain. Palin deserves special approbium because she is so unapologetic about herself and her country.
Apologize to any and all agrieved parties. That will make the world like us.
Get rid of those nuclear weapons, because they cause wars and bad feelings.
Start to believe in your own press and media reports, and the omniscience of your own spoken word. I can do anything, I am invincible.

Around the edges, the fantasy world of those that are obsessed with wish fulfillment is beginning to crack. Too many real people with real power that is independent of the American media, electorate and the general propaganda have witnessed the abilities of Obama and come to a conclusion.

Whether it was the clown show in Copenhagen or the possibility of a real unraveling and tragedy in Lebanon, more that a few people are beginning to realize that there is no unicorn, only a ragged pony with a painted ice cream cone glued to its head. The dream of Obama senior, was, after all, a socialist society.
If middle class Americans think it’s going to be bad if they lose equity in their homes and see their 401K’s stagnate, this is nothing compared to the ugliness that will appear in places where the peace was roughly maintained because of the possible threat of American military power coming to bear.

A hundred brush fires will be lit in places all over the world. Nothing IS inevitable. Not order, not peace, not war, not prosperity, not success or failure. But absent a will to create order, chaos will reign.

Someday order will probably be restored, but it will not appear to be the hoped for order of free nations with popularly elected governments which was a part of the now deceased “Bush Doctrine”.
It will be a harsh peace maintained by various spheres of influence by a host of emerging thug nations.