Impending Obama Meltdown?

Historian Victor Davis Hanon predicts an impending Obama meltdown:

"Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny."

"We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking."

Hanson rattles off Obama's many missteps in his first two weeks, such as appointing tax dodgers and lobbyists, the "stimulus package", his abysmal interview on Saudi TV in which he trashed his own country (referring to the Saudi king as courageous and to Bush as dictatorial), his poor press secretary and crazy VP Biden. 

"Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama's world view of 'Bush did it/but I am the world': The North Koreans are readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say 'shut up' about Kashmir and the Euros order no more 'buy American)."

"This is quite serious. I can't recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton's initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood but quite dangerous. And he must listen on foreign policy to his National Security Advisor, Billary, and the Secretary of Defense. If he doesn't quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism—angry that the once-fawning press betrayed him while we the people, due to our American malaise, are to blame."

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[Observer]

And as any student of Greek tragedy knows, after Hubris comes Nemesis (the Angel of Just Retribution).

In this instance, I fear it will be visited upon the American people and not only upon Barack Hussein Obama.