In a Steynian nutshell

In one of his most brilliant columns, Mark Steyn uses the unequal gift exchange between Gordon Brown and Barack Obama to delve into Obama’s personality and his plans, and the cataclysmic effect both will have, not just on America, but on the world.  Here’s just a taste:

I would make a modest prediction that in 2012, after four years of the man who was supposed to heal America’s relations with a world sick of all that swaggering cowboy unilateralism, those relations will be much worse. From Canada to India, the implications of the Obama ascendancy are becoming painfully clear. The other week Der Spiegel ran a piece called “Why Obamania Isn’t the Answer,” which might more usefully have been published before the Obamessiah held his big Berlin rally. Written by some bigshot with the German Council on Foreign Relations and illustrated by the old four-color hopey-changey posters all scratched up and worn out, the essay conceded that Europe had embraced Obama as a “European American.” Very true. The president is the most European American ever to sit in the Oval Office. And, because of that, he doesn’t need any actual European Europeans getting in the way — just as, at his big victory-night rally in Chicago, the first megastar president didn’t need any megastar megastars from Hollywood clogging up the joint: Movie stars who wanted to fly in were told by his minders that he didn’t want any other celebrities deflecting attention from him. Same with world leaders. If it’s any consolation to Gordon Brown, he’s just not that into any of you.

It was obvious to all not rendered oblivious by the hysteria and hype that Obama was a narcissist with megalomaniac tendencies. 54% (or so) of Americans made their bed, and now the world gets to sleep in it. We conservatives have two years to turn the tide by ousting the current Congress.  By four years, it will be like turning on ocean liner on a time.  After that, the switch metaphors again, we’re on a slippery slope with no brakes.

As for the conservative message in the 2010 elections, “NObama” might be all we need.  We can save the nuances for later.