Football legend Vince Lomabradi once remarked, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing!” Barack Obama knows exactly what the late Lombardi meant. He also has a greater appreciation for the “thrill of victory” after being sworn in as America’s 44th president on this foreboding winter day in Washington, D.C. President Obama also apparently enjoys a good gloat at the expense of those he has vanquished in the cutthroat wars known as American politics. Which is why his first words as president were all, at once, a poke in the eye to his tormentors and an outright lie. President Obama began...