re: #212 little boomer

Er, no. It’s that he seems to think his very presence, a la deus ex machina, will set all aright, like a 1785 opera. It’s called hubris, and he’s got a boatload.

Hubris? That’s straight out of the Bush years left-wing memes playbook. What evidence to you have that Obama assumed that his mere presence would result in the selection of Chicago by the IOC?

Here’s the Google search for Hubris + Bush.

5,760,000 hits.

Obama stands at around 400,000. I didn’t agree when it was applied to Bush and I don’t agree nor do I think it applies to Obama in this matter.