Obama: The Prince of PyrrhicVictories

Obama was obviously never taught as a child, his last opportunity for learning I fear, that "self praise stinks."

For a president, whose only positive effort and effect so far has been to save Jimmy Carter from being at the absolute bottom of the presidential ranks, to appear on national TV and claim that he's in the same class as Lincoln raises the question whether there is or should be a sanity test for continued service as the country's "leader."

Obama's activities since that memorable broadcast further fortify the notion that this is a guy who will do absolutely anything to create the impression that he is doing important things for, or should we say to, the country.

Obama did his level best to invest the Ft. Bragg ceremony with the trappings of events that have celebrated the genuine endings of wars. The significantly under attended event was all terribly embarrassing and self-conscious. The fact that there occurred within days the consequences feared by military leaders who knew what they were doing but did not have the tin ear of their C-in-C makes Obama look even more desperately narcissistic.

Given the lofty rhetoric of Obama's pre-beach, pre-links address earlier this week, one might be tempted to think that something actually important happened when a two-month "kick the can down the road" bill became law. It was as salutary as a cancer patient hearing that critical surgery will have to be postponed because of the surgeon's distant golf date. But when nothing positive is happening Obama deals with the bricks at hand and does his best to conflate it with yet another teleprompted speech.

Let's hope that Obama doesn't hit a hole in one while in Hawaii. God knows how he'd play that one!