Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

President Barack Obama has now left a Europe that is becoming more conservative under the lash of the recent economic difficulties and returned home to change the economy of the United States so that it becomes more like the Europe now being rejected by voters. According to an Associated Press report, conservatives are racing towards victory “in some of Europe’s largest economies Sunday as initial results and exit polls showed voters punishing left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and elsewhere.” Not to worry, Europeans dissatisfied with Europe’s turn to the right can always move to the Unites States, the land of the subsidized and the home of bailed out.

“You want to send troops to Darfur? I sympathize. I’m not sure what they’d be able to do there. A few years ago, men and women of conscience were urging the United States to intervene on behalf of the Kurds, who had suffered, many of them, a fate worse than death at the hands of Saddam Hussein and his mass murdering sons. Being gassed to death, people tell me, is no picnic. And the United States did intervene, and the Kurds were saved. And now it is said by the same conscience stricken folk that this intervention has been a failure. Men and women of conscience on the left – except for Christopher Hitchens and some few others besotted by the courageous Kurds– are clamoring for the troops to come home. So it seems the French (and Cindy Sheehan; can't forget her) were right all along, doesn’t it? "You know, let me hazard a prediction. The Americans are a bit behind Europe in their emotional responses to things of this kind. I predict that when the United States is fully convinc...