Obama's Plan B: Martyrdom

Now that 1) Obama's range-of-the-moment repeat attack on the economy shows that he is an ideologue unwilling to admit error, 2) Obama's international policies represent themselves as an uncomfortable straddle between protecting the homeland by following Bush policies and a counterweight sop to the left that seriously compromises the security of forces not sufficiently fortunate to be included in a premature and political pull-out, 3) his chosen lieutenants are wracked with scandal, and, perhaps most critically, 4) the eagerness of his erstwhile champions in the loony left being ready, willing, and able to throw him under a bus which may become as famous as Rosa Park's, Obama must face the inevitability of non-re-election.

What to do; what to do?

Unlike his classier predecessors, Obama is not the kind of guy to go quietly into the night. Also, the election results will probably be sufficiently overwhelming as to make a Gore-style attack on the result fruitless, even with the help of ACORN and the old, new, or middlin' Black Panthers.

No, Obama will probably go for martyrdom. His spin will go something like this:

He tried heroically to send the United States into the celestial reaches of European socialism with all its attendant glories, but big bad business and even bigger badder capitalism blocked his path.

His racial heritage was a pill that the country could swallow only for a short period. (This fairy tale may have a very limited shelf life if Herman Cain succeeds him.)

At the end of the day, the country will have learned a valuable lesson:  that the romantic notion of a mixed-race president is not worth ignoring the guy's obvious intellectual, philosophical, professional, and experiential deficiencies.