Quote of the day, from the big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue

Courtesy of the most articulate man ever to occupy the White House.

“That’s why building this international coalition has been so important,” Obama said. “It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally.”

OK, I’ll say it.

It’s not that anybody hates Obama, get that out of your head. Nobody hates Obama, because you have to respect someone to hate them.

What it is, is a growing feeling of uneasiness.

And it’s not “because he’s black,” as his diehard True Believers keep insisting to the country full of people who voted for him, most of them because he’s black.

We liked the idea of capping the long march to equality and justice with the election of a black president. So we knew less about the man than we know about the early life of George Washington. (Not an exaggeration, I invite you to do your own digging.) Mostly we wanted this whole racial thing to be over.

If you believe, as I do, that the color of your skin is the least important thing about you, then can we for Christ’s sake stop yammering on endlessly about it? I want to talk about how smart and charming I am, not how white I am.

And not that many people think he’s a diabolically clever mastermind working his secret plan to impose One World Socialism on the U.S. and make us a junior partner in a gigantic UN, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

Would it were only that!

No, the most outstanding, and alarming characteristic of this presidency is the sheer goofiness of the man. It’s like Chance the gardiner is occupying the Oval Office.

And like Chance, sometimes there is something so terribly sweet about the man, in all his cluelessness. Until you contemplate who’s finger is on what button…

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