Why Obama Will Fail: He Doesn't Triangulate

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. Rand Simberg may help explain why:

Barack Obama is incapable of doing anything so smart [triangulate--reaching across the aisle]...Unlike Bill Clinton, Obama is a committed ideologue--a man raised by Marxists and mentored as a youth by a communist, who sought out similar types in college by his own admission in the autobiography he may or may not have actually written himself. He's a man who ran on the ticket of an avowedly socialist party in the 1990s. He's a man who sat in the pew of a racist, anti-Semitic, America-hating demagogue for two decades with no objection, until he discovered that it was becoming inconvenient to his political goals. He's a man who has willfully marinated his entire life in an ugly stew of socialism, racialism, victimology, class warfare, and other "progressive" tropes fashionable in academia and elite America but abhorrent to many of the rest of us.

That's it in a nutshell.