We Do Not Deserve Him

"Obama has an ambitious second-term agenda," wrote Ryan Lizza in this week's New Yorker. "The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change," to "improve the world." No national economic growth, no demographic adjustments, no war reduction, no crime prevention, no inflation control, no response to shifts in world military and economic leadership, no clarification of a national vision.

This guy has the wrong job. He should not be President; we are too small, too petty, too gritty for his aims. (The question of his abilities will go unasked.) He should have something with an international reach and a moral base.

Something with great outfits. Maybe a Ecumenical Patriarch, a Patriarch, or a Metropolitan for the Orthodox Church.