Victor Davis Hanson article, "When failure is Success".

I see an audit in this man's future.

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Losing a job is freedom from job lock. A budget deficit larger than in any previous administration is austerity. A mean right-wing video caused the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. Al-Qaeda was long ago washed up. The Muslim Brotherhood is secular. Jihad is a personal journey. Shooting people while screaming Allahu akbar! is workplace violence. Unaffordable higher premiums and deductibles are the result of an Affordable Care Act. Losing your doctor and your health-insurance plan prove you will never lose your doctor and your health-insurance plan — period! Being a constitutional lawyer means you know how to turn the IRS and the FCC on your enemies. Failure is success; lies are truth.

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Who cares that fiscal discipline is now defined as raising taxes so as to borrow only $600 billion rather than borrowing $1 trillion a year for six straight years? And who cares that millions will lose their doctor, their health-care coverage, and most likely their jobs because of Obamacare?

Ditto foreign policy. Who cares that Obama issued five deadlines to Iran to cease enrichment and, when rebuffed, unilaterally dropped sanctions in favor of negotiation? Who cares that he declared a red line in Syria, and when the regime crossed it and gassed its own people, he announced that he had never issued a red line in the first place? Who cares that he issued a step-over line to President Yanukovych of Ukraine, as if anyone would not step over anything because Obama warned him not to?

Ditto also leading from behind in Libya, the flip-flopping from the radical Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood to the junta in Egypt, the reset with Putin, the friendly initiatives to the late Hugo Chávez that ignored the near collapse of Venezuela, as Latin America goes back to the late 1970s in another failed round of coerced statism.

In short, Obama will always poll around 45 percent. That core support is his lasting legacy. In a mere five years, by the vast expansion of federal spending, by the demonizing rhetoric of his partisan bully pulpit, and by executive orders and bizarre appointments, Obama has so divided the nation that he has created a permanent constituency that will never care as much about what he does as it cares about what he says and represents.

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In short, there can be no scandals, or even good or bad news, just what Obama represents — an exemption from normal protocols of public and media scrutiny of his actual record. And so he has established two legacies. He will probably never win back a majority of inductive Americans again, and he will rarely lose his deductive base.

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Checkmate

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Either incredibly obtuse or incredible trolling

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Where do you draw exception to facts in the article?

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Curious absence of our liberal brethren in this thread. I would love to hear a rebuttal to the points made therein.

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Hi. I posted up above.

I said that Victor Davis Hanson is a fraud and a complete idiot.

You do realize that he was the main cheerleader for the Iraq War, right? Like the most smug of all its shills, who preached the 'we'll be accepted as liberators' line till he was red in the face? Who so badly miscalled Iraq that it's utterly amazing he's still paid to write prose?

I don't think Obama's been a very good president. I don't like that his government is opaque, especially after he made all these promises about being transparent. I don't like how his administration handles the media. Domestically, I thought ObamaCare was too much too soon and it made things too acrimonious between the two parties.

But I also think he's opposed by a bunch of mouth-breathing psychopaths who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Victor Davis Hanson preaching about Obama's foreign policy?

A man who would have us entrenched in war in Syria and/or Iran right now, without question? Utter lunacy. So, no, I'm not going to go line-by-line through another one of his diatribes.

In 50 years, when historians look back on Obama's presidency they're not going to say: "Wow! He should have listened to Victor Davis Hanson and started a war with Iran, right when it was beginning to show signs of reaching out to the rest of the world! And supported the Jihadists in Syria, too! And in Chechnya!"

(Yea, that's another big Victor Davis Hanson issue: Supporting Chechnya's 'freedom fighters', like the guys who blew up the Boston Marathon. Neocons are stupid as shite, in case you haven't figured it out.)

Yes. I am someone's alter. There are only 3 people on the planet who disagree with the warped, david duke-level discourse found on this board.

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Hi. I posted up above. I said that Victor Davis Hanson is a fraud and a complete idiot. You do realize that he was the main cheerleader for the Iraq War, right? Like the most smug of all its shills, who preached the 'we'll be accepted as liberators' line till he was red in the face? Who so badly miscalled Iraq that it's utterly amazing he's still paid to write prose? I don't think Obama's been a very good president. I don't like that his government is opaque, especially after he made all these promises about being transparent. I don't like how his administration handles the media. Domestically, I thought ObamaCare was too much too soon and it made things too acrimonious between the two parties. But I also think he's opposed by a bunch of mouth-breathing psychopaths who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Victor Davis Hanson preaching about Obama's foreign policy? A man who would have us entrenched in war in Syria and/or Iran right now, without question? Utter lunacy. So, no, I'm not going to go line-by-line through another one of his diatribes. In 50 years, when historians look back on Obama's presidency they're not going to say: "Wow! He should have listened to Victor Davis Hanson and started a war with Iran, right when it was beginning to show signs of reaching out to the rest of the world! And supported the Jihadists in Syria, too! And in Chechnya!" (Yea, that's another big Victor Davis Hanson issue: Supporting Chechnya's 'freedom fighters', like the guys who blew up the Boston Marathon. Neocons are stupid as shite, in case you haven't figured it out.)

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I could care less about Hanson, but the point about the media not holding Obama to the same standards as Christie, Romney, and W is what upsets me.

I agree, we don't need to be caught up in a Syrian war; however, we don't need our president running his mouth and making the country look bad time after time.

There was a time if a president warned some one there were consequences to pay. Not anymore, Obama draws red lines and when the red lines are crossed, he waffles or draws another red line.

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Obama resisted the efforts of right-wing warhawks to invade Syria.

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Was that before or after drawing his redline?

Where in the article is he claiming we should have invaded Syria, Iran, etc? Honest question? Did VDH say this in another article or setting to which I am unaware?

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Maybe you need to read about Victor Davis Hanson then, eh? Hint: He was one of the people flaming the fans back in 2005-2006 about invading Iran. And Syria? Are you kidding? He loves supportin' jihadis, just like in Chechnya. (For reference, you may remember the Dagestani brothers who came to the US under the Bush Administration's neocon-authored policies towards these freedom fighting people)

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Once again, please point out in specifics where he suggested that Obama should have invaded Iran or Syria. I don't frequently read him, so I am attempting to throw you a bone and allow you to show us where he said what you are insinuating.

If you are unable to specifically show us this, then you will obviously appear to be rather hackish...if you can show us this - VDH specifically calling on Obama to invade Syria or attack Syria or attack Iran...then you will look like a poli-board hero.

Edit: This is from the linked article...

"Who cares that he issued a step-over line to President Yanukovych of Ukraine, as if anyone would not step over anything because Obama warned him not to?"

It seems the insinuation is that Obama should quit making hollow threats...not that he should go to war.