Plaintive cry of the morning *UPDATED*

I wrote this in an email to some friends, but feel like broadcasting it more widely:

Oh, for a brain and a heart in the White House.  It’s bad enough that the American people, by electing Obama and a monolithic Dem majority, have damned America.  It’s the fallout in other nations that’s so awful.  Should Israel really have to suffer for our stupidity?  Or the people in the streets of Iran?  Or the Honduran citizens struggling to maintain their Constitution?  America is no longer a bulwark against totalitarianism, but an enabler.  (And even during the worst of realpolitik, we were merely dead weight, not enablers.)

UPDATE:  At Noisy Room, Terresa has some perfect quotations about the man who is our President.