"I never thought the mere fact of my election would usher in peace, harmony and some post-partisan era," the president noted last night.
Actually, Mr. President, that's exactly what you thought.
Upon securing the Democratic nomination he said the following: "Generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment …the rise of the oceans began to slow."
At the Brandenburg Gate, he invoked the glamour of John Kennedy with the foreign policy street cred of Ronald Reagan, even though he had not yet been elected. He billed himself as the post-racial, post-partisan president. The past be damned, he came to save us from ourselves and begin anew.
