Obama is a Black Swan

Gosh I know that will draw howls of racism but I am talking about a Talebian Black Swan. (If you don't get the reference, then get off my website.) This is a serious but, I am sure, little contemplated issue. Thanks to the Neo-Neocon for raising this thought. It is not the deficits. It is not the foreign policy fecklessness. It is not the socialism. It is not the despoliation of creditors' rights (Chrysler!). It is not the invitation to non-taxpaying Maoists into the halls of power. It is...alas...that the US is now...flakey. We are an international airhead. A ditz on the global stage. This is however not "Obama's fault" as in the fault of Barack H. Obama the man. It is however the fault of Obama, the phenomenon. The loss of America's reliability and steadiness on the world stage is culminated in Obama. He's doing it but he is merely our vessel and the fact that he is there, doing this to our nation and our nation's standing is more a reflection on us than on him.

So yes, the damage is done. As stated, it is not the tangible, dollars and sense, touch with your fingers damage - the Tea Party movement has blessedly helped us avoid that to date. It is the sad, ineffable, slumping reality...the United States of America has become...officially...flakely. And no one would have ever thought that. That is the Black Swan.