That from Jon Meacham’s “exclusive” interview with President Obama. What’s most disturbing is that Meacham likely believes this, despite all evidence to the contrary. Meacham had a cover piece on the inevitability of gay marriage, but though Obama supports gay marriage he refuses to move off his personal view that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Likewise on DADT, where Obama is showing caution at the insistence of Jim Jones, or so Jones claims. In Iraq, Obama has yielded to his generals who urged him to slow the pace of withdrawal and keep U.S. force levels stable through the end of the year, at least. Obama reversed himself on the release of the photos, was rebuked by a Democratic Congress on funding for closing Gitmo, he has revived the military commissions he attacked relentlessly during the campaign, and his administration is openly talking of indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. The world is not bending to Obama, Obama is bending to the world. And the world is praising him for it. The left, however, is either furious or, as in Meacham’s case, willfully blind.
