the Busted Messiah:

‘..Nearly all the great captains of secular history have learned from their mistakes. But if the doctrine of Infallibility originated in Rome, nowhere is it more ardently practiced than in Washington DC.  As Napoleon once cynically observed, “in politics stupidity is not a handicap”. Only humility is.  President Obama is too trapped in his own “arc of history” and too irretrievably hostage to his own self-proclaimed role as a transcendent political figure to pull off a Steve Jobs.
Shortly before his election Obama declared, “we are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” From such heights it is hard to turn around and say, ‘I screwed up.’ He is doomed by own hubris to tragedy,  though for which he will suffer no financial or personal ill effect. It is unfortunate the same can’t be said for those whose futures he will take down with him..’                    Richard Fernandez