There´s no reason Zero shouldn´t be utterly delusional, his entire life and career are built on nothing but lies and deceit yet he´s never been held accountable.

Another home run by Steyn. "So, in public, [Obama] issues goals, orders dreams, commands unicorns". The great and powerful Oz has spoken--pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Even so, #1, this author makes me laugh ... even while I´m crying.

Steyn aside, it is in fact a function of an executive, anywhere, any time, to set goals. That´s how businesses run. Strange that Steyn either doesn´t know it, forgot it, doesn´t care, or has entered the last stage (deliquescence of the brain) of scumbama derangement syndrome. There´s so much actually wrong with scumbama, why invent a magical fairyland definition of "executive"?

Ah, yes the old Stalinist Tractor Factory ploy: This factory will produce 2,000 tractors in the next 12-month period. And when this impossible goal is not reached because steel mills don´t exist, then blame the "Wreckers" and find that there is an "Engineers´ Plot".

Barry´s concept of job creation via pick and shovel road and bridge building is his fairyland dream from his childhood.
The boy thrilled to watch the peasants with pick and shovel build a railroad now wants to bring that amazing concept to the USA as his gift to the nation.
Since he has never seen modern construction with highly skilled workmen he doesn´t know he is 100 years behind building jobs. The same thinking pilots his ideas of all jobs.

#6: Pick and shovel -- or hammer and sickle?

MF budgeting from the MF-in-Chief.

Steyn is a treasure. Reading his "After America" right now.

And he is far from deranged in any sense of the word.

An American president is not a business executive or a CEO. The government is not a business, it is the government. The presidency is one of the three branches of government. An American president does not "issue" anything. This is the language of tyrants (or bureaucrats - which in practice comes to the same thing). Steyn is right to notice the implications of this language, which is yet another indication that Obama neither understands nor supports the American system of government. Like nearly all radical Leftists, he views the Constitutional system of checks and balances as an antiquated and utterly unnecessary obstruction to his plans. But if Americans are prepared to accept someone like Obama "issuing" goals for them, they deserve what they get. They are no longer worthy of the liberty for which previous generations fought and with which they were entrusted, gratis. They have chosen to become serfs, to whom nobles and czars and commissars "issue" ukases for them to obey.

Re: " America moves forward only when we do so together," declared the president. I dunno. Maybe it´s just me, but the whole joint seems to be seizing up these days: the more "activist" Big Government gets, the more inactive the nation at large.

Obamaland, the fundamentally transformed collective, will be placed on fhe same list as Haiti, Venezuela and Zimbabwe for most impoverished. Obama will have achieved the unprecedented, something that normal people will regret.

"Magical Fairyland budgeting" for Zippy while the Wookie ticks off her bucket list.