By the way,

of course I know that Americans in general still support Obama enthusiastically, especially considering the actual pain and problems out here, and also that the world at large is still sighing its rather silly collective orgasmic sigh over Obama, and so on. My annoyance is with certain public progressive voices that I counted on for sense in the midst of the distress of the Bush era but which now seem all too quick to indulge in the most senseless reflexive paranoia and impracticality imaginable.