YEAH, AS IT TURNS OUT NOT SO MUCH, CHAMP: Obama told a friend of mine before he was elected, “Wouldn’t it be great for the world if I were president?” “It could be that O really did believe his election marked a historical turning point in which the diminution of retrograde forces abroad was inevitable. And maybe that’s why a year’s worth of briefings on ISIS didn’t penetrate. Don’t they know they’re going to lose? Haven’t they seen his face?”