Restoring the Sacred

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Bret Stephens: Obama and the Copenhagen Syndrome


Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal wrote a particularly clear analysis today of why President Obama's first year in office has perhaps rated less than a "solid B+ grade."

Here are some clips:

It's not as if he (Obama) lacks for charisma. It's that he believes too much in the power of charisma itself and specifically too much in his own.

So what's Copenhagen Syndrome? It is a belief in your own miracles. It is thinking that those who crowned you king actually knew what they were doing. It is buying into your own tulip bulb mania. It is the floating evanescent bubble of self. God help you when it bursts.

To read the entire article, go HERE.

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