...but by now he's way, way to personally invested in his end-of-the-world scenarios. He's going to feel more and more betrayed by events when civilization persists in eluding the various prescribed apocalypses he's set out for us. Disappointing as Obama might be, anyone who would single him out as the worst "going back to the very start of the republic" has been seduced by his own rhetoric into losing all sense of historical proportion.

cordially,