Last I knew, Conrad Black was in prison, where he belongs. Yet, here he is committing crimes against syntax and using words like ‘pelagic’ and ‘Pelosified’ in the pages of the National Review. He offers us wisdom, such as this:
After the rise and decapitation of each non-Mitt, the frustrations of the average reasonable Republican or independent who loves America and is horrified by the most incompetent administration since that of James Buchanan (who at least had the decency not to seek reelection) seem to have become explosive and irrational.
Of all the criticisms I’ve seen leveled against the Obama administration, the only one less credible than ‘incompetent’ is ‘corrupt.’ This, after all, is the administration that administered a flawed TARP program to near-profitability, that rescued a bankrupt auto industry that is now thriving, that brought us seamlessly out of the quagmire of Iraq, that actually managed to pass a comprehensive health care bill, that has overseen 21 straight months of economic growth, that led the effort to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power without incurring any coalition casualties, and that finally located and hunted down Usama bin-Laden. If they have sometimes committed acts of political malpractice and at times made a blunder or two, no one can reasonably look at their body of work and call it incompetent.
In fact, it is the competence of the Obama administration that justifies, more than anything else, their reelection. After witnessing the countless acts of incompetence of the Bush administration, people didn’t care about ideology anymore. They just wanted people in charge who could respond to a natural disaster. They’ve got that now, and they won’t be handing power over to a clown like Newt Gingrich. Conrad Black is right about that. That’s about the only thing he is right about. Although, I join him in the fervent hope that the Republicans will have a brokered convention.
