Peggy Noonan: How Is Wimpy Self-Pitying Richard Milhous Obama Bullying The Nation Today?

In the misty days and bestarryed eves that pile one upon the other until a bevy of swooping larks of the nation's citoyens fly as one for the gravied pomp and gloried circumstance of an Inauguration, a President must love. He must love John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell, with the lion's heart in which a lamb could safely nestle, of Love and Bigness. Also, here are the things Barack Obama is doing that annoy Peggy Noonan, in order.

• Having an inauguration.

• Which should be unifying.

• But he was mean to John Boehner. 

• Which means he hates half the country.

• Even though only a quarter of the country approves of John Boehner.

• Because Obama said Republicans are holding the economy hostage.

• And are suspicious of Social Security.

• And feeding children.

• Even though they said that. 

• And he pointed out that they call him a socialist.

• As if anyone would ever do such a thing!

• Which makes him paranoid, like Richard Nixon.

• He won't negotiate on the debt ceiling.

• So it will be his fault when they don't vote to raise the debt ceiling.

• Because he said the country should pay its bills.

• Why wouldn't he negotiate on that?

• He said the GOP would block gun control legislation.

• When they are only going to impeach him over it. 

• Why does Barack Obama have to accuse people of doing stuff they say they are going to do?

• He has gray hair now.

• Because he is trying to be the country's daddy.

• Instead of an annoying genius that everybody hates.

• And he is only studying the effects of violent video games.

• But he should do more about it.

• Instead he is focusing on guns or something.

• Even though Peggy Noonan has no problem with that.

• He is not being enough like Richard Nixon.

[ WSJ ]