The Thrill Is Gone

Actually, unlike Ace, I got tired of defending President Bush in 2003.  Not because he was deliberately dismantling America as we have known it for over two centuries, but because he never defended himself and his Administration and his policies from insatiably billious Donk attacks.  He'd just do stuff and never bother selling it, even when it could have been easily sold, at a time when his approval numbers were still comparatively sky-high.  Thus did what should have been an easy re-election bid turn into a completely needless nail-biter.

This woman's problem is at the other end of the presidential rainbow:

Can we all agree that there's no doubt about this lady not being a plant?  C'mon, man, she's black, she's a Democrat, she's a self-professed Obamunist - or at least she was.  In no script for this particular dog & pony pooper-scooper show I can imagine would such a person get up and blaspheme her god and savior by asking him, "Mister President, I need you to answer this honestly: Is this my new reality?"  Clear implication: "Mister President, you're more full of shit than the septic tank I haven't had pumped in ten years."  Just imagine the progression she had to go through to get from religious ecstasy twenty-two months ago to denial to subconscious disillusionment to conscious disillusionment to saying it to herself to saying it to loved ones to saying it to friends to saying it to Red Barry's at-first-grinning-and-then-grimmacing face.  And just imagine the freefall feeling he had when he realized she wasn't kidding.

Did you ever have the dream where first you find yourself taking a test you haven't studied for in a class you never signed up for and then find out at the end that you didn't know it was timed, and then you break your last pencil?  The TPers he can hate away, but when those who are presumeably his most devoted and fanatical followers start losing faith and jumping ship, and it isn't even halfway through his term, it sure as shinola looks like a highly symbolic moment to me.

Particularly when combined with this little development:

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than they are to President Obama’s, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Just 40% say their views are closer to the president’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.

Among the Political Class, however, 68% say their views are more like Obama’s, while 63% of Mainstream voters describe their views as more like Palin’s. 

That same 52% still isn't as sold on Sarahcuda herself as those views' standardbearer, but they are a lot moreso than they used to be, and at the rate that the Obamidency is melting down, in another year that cognitive dissonance gap may well have closed as she is perceived more and more as the logical, even inevitable antidote to Obamunism.  I mean, if the above poor woman is tired of defending The One NOW, just wait another twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen months.  She might have gotten Tea Party tattoos by that time.

But neither of these ominosities were the worst thing to happen to Barack Obama today.  Feast your eyes on the trifecta:

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Not only is Mr. Peanut infringing on Lucifer's "megalomaniacal, moral supremacist, despicable, racist, anti-Semitic guttertrash" gimmick with this smug self-back-patting, but get a load of the death curse he dropped on Barry over on CBS:

I can't control what people say about comparing me with Obama. But I hope that Obama will have as successful a term as I had in dealing with our nation's domestic and international affairs. And if he does, I'll be very proud of him, as I happen to be proud of myself, having had a successful administration when I was in office,"

Isn't receiving a blessing from the clinically insane a sign of the Apocalypse?  I'm sure B.O. would prefer that to this sentiment being within a country parsec of lucidity and sincerity, or Shark-Geezer might be the next recipient of the Baer Treatment.