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From the farticle: Domestically, Mr Obama has stuck doggedly to getting the US health care albatross into the public gaze. And while the bill that finally comes through may be disappointing to many — perhaps, most — people, the fact is that creating real competition to the insurance companies by setting up a non-profit insurance option will certainly loosen the grip of the medical-financial-legal complex. Of course, the devil, as always, will be in the details and implementation, but, as with the restructuring of the financial infrastructure, I have little doubt that Mr Obama is committed to ensuring accountability in health care costs and, critically, that even low income Americans can get reasonable health care. Success may spill over into his second term, but succeed he will. There - in one para the scrooball manages to praise Ogabe to the high heavens while simultaneously sowing the seeds of excuses and blame-deflection to use when Ogabe's actions finally fail. Typical.

More from the farticle: And then, of course, there’s the whole global image thing. Mr Obama has completely changed the way the world looks at the US. And while many in the US appear uncomfortable with this, seeing it as a capitulation from being “the greatest nation in the world”, it is, in reality, no such thing. Rather this image change is strategically crucial to the success of virtually every US policy. Remember the speech in Cairo early in the presidency — this perception of openness to normal Muslims is part of the reason that US policy in Af-Pak looks to be gaining traction and appears to have a greater chance of success. Iran and the Israel-Palestine conflict, too, have more chances of success today since America is seen as being more open-minded and actively engaged. Well, how about measuring success in terms of longterm trust engendered as a result of investing hard-won US geopolitical capital, eh? The writer is a sold-out deluded hack. And writes like one too. Typical.