Barack Obama is everything they said he was during the campaign, and more. For, in less than a year in office, he has achieved what Einstein could only theorize; what H.G. Wells could only imagine; what Mr. Peabody and Sherman could accomplish only because they existed in an animated cartoon.  Yes, Mr. Obama has achieved the ability to time-travel.  But, it’s not as if Mr. Obama simply mounted his quantum-leaping unicorn and flitted off to visit Karl Marx or a young Chairman Mao (at least, not that we know of).  Rather, he has succeeded in loading the entire nation into the way-back machine and alighting at some point in time more than eight years in the past.  He has brought us back to that age of glib indifference known as the pre-9/11 era.  A mere week after Jihadist Terrorism once again raised its ugly head on American soil, our Time-Traveler-In-Chief saw it fit to demonstrate, in the most audacious way possible, that terrorists would be treated the very same way they were before 9/11: as mere criminals.  And, since we’re back to the pre-9/11 era and irony is no longer dead (rather, it never died), I can safely observe that Kkalid Sheikh Muhammad and his five cohorts, along with their 19 dead friends, are the ones who brought about the post-9/11 era, which is apparently now safely in the past (or in the future–writing about time travel can be so confusing).

So, where in the timeline will Mr. Obama take our nation next?