'Dude, What Happened to Your Presidency?'

At just after 10 p.m. EST on Nov 2nd, CNN projected Republicans would take over the House of Representatives. Simultaneously, on NBC News, Brian Williams was pointing out that the elections were guaranteeing that the new Congress would have fewer Democrats in it than any Congress in more than 40 years. And the headlines on Drudge vacillated between “Tsunami Alert for House,” “Russ Feingold Out,” and “Pelosi in Denial.” And through it all, I couldn’t help but think of the fact that President Obama had given his only Election Day interview to pop culture’s Ryan Seacrest.

That’s right: Instead of sitting in front of a real journalist or news anchor who might have asked tough questions or demanded an account for the Democrat Party’s failures to this point, Obama gave an interview to a guy who’s day job includes interviewing the families of American Idol’s tone-deaf first-rounders, whose appearances on that show are only memorable because of how embarrassingly horrible they are.

And while I mean no offense to Seacrest, who actually deserves credit for landing such an interview, the facts are that Obama should have been sitting across from Chris Wallace at FOX NEWS. Instead, he placed himself in another situation where he’s lucky he got out of the interview without being referred to as “dude” again.

Maybe Obama bemoans the fact that he’s President as much the American electorate has come to bemoan it? (I’m being serious.) Or maybe he just saw the writing on the wall, and couldn’t cope with the fact that the repudiation voters handed him on November 2^nd actually signaled the end of his 2008 election mandate, while consequently demonstrating the momentum Conservatives are enjoying?

Either way, while the American electorate was headed to the polls thinking about the economy, the national debt, and the general malaise that has overtaken the country during the last two years, Obama was talking about what his girls wore for Halloween, how he approaches “date night” with his wife, and the details of his amnesty plan for illegal aliens. (In the real world, Gov. Jan Brewer was winning a landslide victory in Arizona by running against amnesty for illegals.)

Obama has belittled the office into which he was sworn on January 20, 2009, and the mid-term elections proved his confidence is really a pompousness for which there is no ground.

Only Rod Serling could have scripted it better.