Obama Knew Nothing

I would have voted for Obama if I could have. But somewhere between the NSA revelations and the Merkel phone-tapping story, Europe lost faith in him. Not because he was a tyrant, but because it became clear he genuinely had no idea what his own government was doing. Jon Stewart had the only appropriate response: What?!

You want to believe in people. You build them up as something different, something smarter, and then you realize they’re just managing the chaos around them while the actual machinery does what it wants. It’s not quite betrayal. It’s something weirder.