P.J. Does Obama

How About P. J. O'Rourke “ Given that hypocrisy is an important part of diplomacy, and diplomacy is necessary to foreign policy, allow me to congratulate you on your reelection. I wish I could also congratulate you on your conduct of international affairs. I do thank you for killing Osama bin Laden. It was a creditable action for which you deserve some of the credit you’ve been given. But the worst thing that you’ve done internationally is what you’ve done domestically. You sent a message to America in your reelection campaign. Therefore you sent a message to the world. The message is that we live in a zero-sum universe. Of course the intelligence was gathered, and the mission was undertaken, by men and women who, although they answer to your command, answer to duty first. And it’s difficult to imagine any president of the United States who, under the circumstances, wouldn’t have ordered the strike against bin Laden. Although there is Jimmy Carter. Thank you for not being Jimmy Carter. But even though it violates the insincere amity that creates a period of calm following national elections, no thank you for the following, and it is only a partial list: [P.J. Continued] The other funniest thing I heard yesterday is that  New York Gov. Cuomo Jr. is positioning himself for the 2016 elections even further left than Obama and Hillary.  It seems he has found the portal into some nether world. ”