When listing the failures of his presidency at a recent talk, Bush cited first his failure to restore civility. To succeed where Bush failed, Obama must recognize two truths.

First, civility begins at the beginning. In the next month, Obama will set a tone for Washington that will likely endure as long as he does. If he fails to live up to his rhetoric now, he will fail just as Bush did.

Second, civility begins at home. It is one thing to demand civility of one’s opponents, another thing altogether to demand it of one’s own party.

Obama faced an early test last week, when, in the midst of the debate over economic stimulus, Democrats worked to shut Republicans out of the policy process, then behaved boorishly when Republicans complained.

Democratic leaders responded with the political equivalent of a sack dance in football. “If it’s passed with 63 votes or 73 votes, history won’t remember it,” said Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois.

"I won."

Those words for me marked the exact moment I went from an attitude of "wait and see, he may rise to the occasion," to "this man is not my president". I don't mean that in the moonbat sense, which rejects a President working in the national interest because he isn't a member of their flying saucer cult. No I mean that Barack Obama has clearly decided that he's going to be President of half the country--the half I'm not in.

The so-called stimulus package is nothing short of looting, and its not Obama voters getting looted. The lower income voters will never pay any taxes to pay for this, and the rich Obama supporters are getting substantial chunks of the largesse. So confident are Obama's corporate buddies that no one can stop them, that they're buying private jets and $35,000.00 throw rugs with bailout money.

Democrats--in full rape and pillage mode, are even restoring billions in funding for far-left voter fraud machine ACORN.

I feel bad for Kevin Hassett, who may well one day look back on his plea for civility as something equivalent to German Jews pleading with the Nazis for common decency.

UPDATE: Now we're not even Americans anymore...

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.