Bad at Math

Moving or using large quantities of chemical weapons would cross a “red line” and “change my calculus,” the president declared in response to a question at a news conference, to the surprise of some of the advisers who had attended the weekend meetings and wondered where the “red line” came from. With such an evocative phrase, the president had defined his policy in a way some advisers wish they could take back. (NYT, 5/4/2013)

With ever-increasing frequency the Obama mythology constructed by the Legitimate Media dissembles piece-by-piece. The Right delighted in tying him to his teleprompter, but even Liberals admit now that he is not the soaring orator they imagined. The bungling of the sequester exposed him as inept (and petty) politically, far from the skilled political operator the MSNBC crowd crowed about. And now we see him revealed not as the foreign policy expert who would correct the mistakes of Bush/Cheney, but as a bumbling one-term junior senator.