"And the Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters" -- Genesis 1:2

Thanks again El Greco - I've been falling down this week on my favorite columnists. This one from Charles Krauthammer: Hovering on High: Obama Surveys the World is particularly worthy of one's attention:

Obama undoubtedly thinks he is demonstrating historical magnanimity with all these moral equivalencies and self-flagellating apologetics. On the contrary. He's showing cheap condescension, an unseemly hunger for applause and a willingness to distort history for political effect.

Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.