QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 7:15 P.M. ET:  From Janet Daley in London's Telegraph, on President Obama's increasingly grandiose (and delusional) talk about the global community, global governance, global this, global that.  Once again a British writer pens an incisive essay on the strange goings on inside the head of an American president:

What nobody seems to be saying is that it is the proper business of democratically elected governments to protect and defend the needs and wishes of their own people. This is nothing less than the whole 18th-century project of modern democracy with which we are playing fast and loose. Ironically, the fad for "global governance" – whatever that turns out to mean – suits democratically elected leaders rather well: it absolves them of responsibility while enhancing their prestige. Perfect. But then exposure on the world stage is also likely to betray the limits of their understanding: does Mr Obama really think that he can coerce or shame European nations – with all their historical baggage and self-serving complacency – into forsaking what he calls their "collective inaction" on foreign policy (on Iran, say)?

COMMENT:  Ah, Ms. Daley, Mr. Obama believes he can do anything. His mouth is his magic wand, waved all over the admiring world.  Do we dare doubt him?  Do we dare question?

Yup.

September 26, 2009