Seven years of near madness -- Victor Davis Hanson

VDH has succinctly summarized here the second Bush term, the irrational behavior of the left media and politicians, the rise and election of Obama and the return to reality in 2010.  As is his wont, Hanson brings the historian's perspective to recent history.  After all his recounting and analysis of this period, one is left to wonder exactly what caused the left to become thoroughly unhinged and irrational.  He offers the partial explanation that after years of out of power they saw the opportunity to  rally voters around the unpopularity of the prolonged conflict in Iraq conveniently forgetting that they had agreed with Bush about going into that country and all the rest.  As they always do, the democrats, with no principles other than the exercise of power, turned the full fury of their captive media and academia against the republicans giving us in the process the Hope and Change presidency.  If Obama is reelected all bets are off on the future of the US, at least as the country we have known in the past.