In my continuing experiment with low information living, I've developed various impressions and perhaps not surprisingly, see them being born out by the polls.

Obama on Iran, Obama on the budget, Obama on transforming the best medical system in the world into the bureaucratic equivalent of the post office.

Can you imaging my eyes rolling? The snear on my lips? The downward glance and involuntary head shake?

I was never an Obama fan, judging correctly that he was an intellectual and character light-weight, but I was tempted to engage in a kind of forced self-doubt about the outcomes. That flight-of-fancy has long since passed. Events had demonstrated the correctness of my original perception--Obama's admirable self-discipline and focus serve only his personal ambitions.

The self-delusion on Iran is so blatant, so "emperor-has-no-clothes", that media credulity leads me to compare it to fly-saucer cult suicide pacts and millennialist mountain-top anticipation of Christ's date-certain return.

The American people aren't buying it, just as they aren't buying the fiscal plan or the grand strategy of take-a-number medical care.

Ultimately the current state of affairs demonstrates the limits of media influence. You can tell lies all day long, but to have them believed, they have to be plausible.

The irony for Obama and his fans is that to be able to change the world, you must first understand it.

They clearly don't.