Nasty 2012 Should Teach Us all That Fantasy Is No Substitute For Reality

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For Obama in 2012, cold reality triumphed over pie-in-the-sky dreams. AP View Enlarged Image

Barack Obama in 2008 won an election on an upbeat message of change in the hope that the first black president would mark a redemptive moment in American history. Four years later, the fantasies are gone.

In continuing dismal economic times, Obama ran for re-election neither on his first-term achievements — ObamaCare, bailouts, financial stimuli and Keynesian megadeficits — nor on more utopian promises.

Instead, Obama's campaign systematically reduced his rival, Wall Street financier Mitt Romney, to a conniving, felonious financial pirate who did dastardly things, from letting the uninsured die to putting his pet dog Seamus in a cage on top of the family car.

Obama once had mused that he wished to be the mirror image of Ronald Reagan — successfully coaxing America to the left as the folksy Reagan had to the right.

Instead, 2012 taught us that a calculating Obama is more a canny Richard Nixon, who likewise used any means necessary to be re-elected on the premise that his rival would be even worse.