Exercise in futility.

A commenter on a Victor Davis Hanson article highlights Obama’s embrace of the inconsequential:

One of the many dangers before us is that any rational politician standing on the precipice, peering into the abyss, glimpsing the innumerable ways in which America and the world could very well go to hell in a handbasket in an instant would not be doing what Obama is doing, domestically or in foreign affairs. His Middle Eastern Policy? Pull out and urinate on Israel for daring to build homes for its people. Military strategy? Announce exactly when we’ll be leaving, prosecute our warriors whenever possible, and borrowing a page for the Clinton playbook, lob some missiles at bad guys. Yes, we’re more accurate now, and we are using less expensive munitions, but it’s the same non-strategy. Our entitlements are about to go bankrupt and destroy the economy? Ignore them, enact the largest new entitlement in history, lie about its cost, and try to enact more and more regulations and bureaucracies that will hasten our economic doom even more quickly. People are starting to notice? Warm up the teleprompters, urinate on their heads and convince them it’s raining hope and change.

This is such a bizarre presidency and not only for its bizarre roots but for its bizarre conduct. Just where do you go for guidance mentally to assimilate a president who

• taught "community organizing" from a text dedicated to Lucifer,
  
• describes a terrorist he shared an office address with for years (along with a Maoist) as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood,"
  
• gave a job to a communist in his administration,
  
• nominates an intellectual nonentity to the nation's highest court,
  
• won’t salute when the national anthem is being played but will bow before an odious Saudi princeling whose nation is single handedly responsible for the funding of the Muslim terrorists and Muslim subversives who work to destroy your civilization?

Next thing we know someone will tell us Obama uses tobacco products!

To borrow an image from a movie, I feel like Peter Sellers frantically pushing the buttons on his TV remote trying to change the channel where the problem is a very real gang of thugs heading his way on the street, not just a movie he’d rather not watch now.

Comment by mikemcdaniel on “America 101 With Dean Obama.” By Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media, 5/15/10 (emphasis added).