Things Are Not What They Seem

"The president-elect is coming to terms with something noted by Ambrose Bierce, the 19th-century American wit who wrote 'The Devil's Dictionary.' He defined 'president' as the leading figure in a small group of persons of whom it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want them to be president. Tuesday night, Obama, in his agreeably subdued speech in Grant Park, seemed to feel the weight of that.

He especially seemed determined to assuage the unease of those, and they are many, who discern in his cool demeanor an unattractive detachment from the warm, unembarrassed, demonstrative patriotism that is distinctively American."

-- George Will, admitting the people of the United States can see something ugly in Barack Obama's election, when they focus on Real Clear Politics.

The ironies are starting to pile up now - after the crime has been committed - and the final one will be when Obama supporters have to face they made it happen, which will be: