Nothing says hubris like declaring one's candidacy for reelection in the face of 39% approval, two (or three) wars over seas, exploding public debt, and declining prestige for the homeland, both at home and abroad.
By now, though, the United States should be used to the overweening vanity of President Obama.
At least he is (subtly) honest about the nature of his policy decisions. Whether he goes to war or not (or is he at war already?) in Libya, whether he chooses to cut another trillion or hold off a trillion more in cuts, whether he allows his wife to micromanage the life-skills of school-age children, whether he permits the government to micromanage health care, welfare, and American free enterprise: all will come down to whether each outcome throws one more sop to the liberal base which he has so abruptly spurned over the last two years.
Obama's fight for his political future is a fight that the United States simply cannot let him win. His triumph will be the United States' defeat.
As a constitutional law professor in Chicago, he had world enough and time to debate the theoretical right and wrong of government action. As Commander-in-Chief, he failed to take decisive action in the face of few facts and little precedent. An inexperienced scholar, he had no experience of his own to fall back on. Coupled with the essentially appeasing and accommodating nature of Modern Liberalism, he arrived at decisions with such unrelenting slowness, it is little wonder that this nation still struggles from beneath the Great Recession and Wars ending Nowhere.
Only in the monstrous growth of government, at the expense of individual liberty, has the President been resolute. His betrayal of this nation's ideals and his indecisive leadership both betray his unfitness for the Office of President of the United States of America.