Reality Check on the Left Coast

Reality Check on the Left Coast

The inability to distinguish reality from fantasy is usually harmless–in a three or four year old.

For the rest of us, that failure can be a sign of a serious mental disorder or just a refusal to accept what exists, or it could simply involve believing what you want to be true when the alternative is just too unpleasant to contemplate.

Our president was giving a pep talk to some supporters out on the left coast on Thursday in his continuing quest to preserve Democrat majorities in the House and Senate. It was a small group gathered at the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium, the overflow from the main event in UW’s basketball arena which was a sign of Obama’s times. Two years ago he would have filled the stadium, not just an arena.

His address was interrupted by an Obama enthusiast which led to the president giving an impromptu evaluation of the first two years of his presidency.

Obama was saying, “And for all the problems we’re going through right now, we still have the best workers on Earth, we’ve got the finest universities on Earth, we’ve got the best entrepreneurs on Earth. We’ve got the freest, most vibrant economy on Earth . . . “ It was at that point that one of his fans shouted out, “Best president on Earth!”

Now, admittedly, Obama was in an awkward spot there–and without his best buddy, his trusty teleprompter. . .
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