The Obama Mythology

The Atlantic’s fairyland view of Obama: From today’s “This Week on TheAtlantic.com” email, the description of the story on the president’s new immigration policy:

The president has long been tugged between his bipartisan urges and his activist roots. With his executive order and speech Thursday, he chose activism.

“Bipartisan urges”? When has he ever shown those? Since his first presidential campaign he’s used the rhetoric of unity and common purpose and the like, but the way he operated and spoke about his Republican opponents showed that he understand being bipartisan etc. as everyone else agreeing to what he wanted. He proposes policies he knows Republicans will oppose and then when they oppose them criticizes them for being obstructive, etc.

Even the before the last election, but especially since, his fans and supporters in the mainstream media have begun creating a mythology of the Man Too Good to Govern a People Like This, essentially taking him at his own self-valuation. It’s what you have to do when your messiah fails.