"A Brilliant Victory" - The New York Post (yes, the NY Post!)

[Nye Bevan]

I give them credit for admitting they were completely wrong.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/brilliant_victory_sh5Q0XzyfxHCuFJxzHbV4N

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. After a historic national election in 2008 based on a vague message of hope and change, he has just shifted gears and won a second term with a tough-minded, hard-grinding state-by-state get-out-the-vote effort that overcame this fundamental fact: He shouldn’t have won at all.

I said several times over the course of this year in this column that he would lose, because the condition of the country under the years of his stewardship would make it impossible for him to survive the electorate’s judgment. There was ample recent precedent for this: Gerald Ford hadn’t survived it in 1976; Jimmy Carter hadn’t survived it in 1980; George H.W. Bush hadn’t survived it in 1992.

I was wrong for several reasons — reasons that help explain just how impressive his victory was and what it portends.

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Still, one must stand in awe of Barack Obama, who really pulled a rabbit out of the hat and magicked himself up four more years. Bravo. I fear very much what he is going to do to the country, but you have to admire this political master and his amazing handicraft.

[immoderate]

1. Good example of mea culpa by left-handed compliment by faint praise.

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--imm