Obama's "Downfall"? Gee, That's Something To Look Forward To....

You know Downfall, at least from the parodies....



Richard Fernandez wonders if we are not living through that moment right now. We wrote extensively recently about the myriad of evidence piling up that Obama has become more than a bit unbalanced lately ("Narcissus Unhinged" - can I trademark that?), complete with tantrums, sulks, and unfocused, spittle-spraying rage at his subordinates. Fernandez wonders if Obama, like the erstwhile Fuhrer, has not descended into a similar type of madness:


Maybe the President is retreating into light reading or watching entertainment the better to forget. That would be human and natural. The worst interpretation of Obama’s behavior is that he’s now in a mental bunker, still planning his victories, still convinced of his destiny, in an atmosphere masterfully portrayed in the movie Downfall. In that movie, a terminally defeated Hitler maneuvers imaginary armies against the advancing Red Army tide and no one has the nerve to tell him that the units on the map no longer exist.

And the Red Ink tide is advancing. The New York Times — that dependable cheerleader of liberal policies — has admitted the possibility that the economic equivalent of General Steiner can no longer attack to relieve the occupants of the bunker. Jeffrey Somer writes that bad as things are they may get worse....

And along with the Times, the Associated Press has jumped on the Downfall bandwagon, with a piece entitled Obama's jobs bill sales pitch disconnects rhetoric, reality:

In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington.

When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has struggled to unite behind the proposal.

When the president says Republicans haven't explained what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.

And when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats control the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities...

Let us hope the liberal madman of Chicago - an antisemitic socialist, to be sure - does not leave us in the same shape that Hitler did Berlin in 1945.

Then again - if Germany rose from the ashes of its "downfall", so certianly can we...