This steaming pile of bovine excrement is one of the most bizarre articles I’ve read in a long time. I was going to ignore it, but the more I think about this the more I laugh. It’s somewhat  reminiscent of when Newsweek’s Evan Thomas told Chris Tingle that Obama was above being a mere President; that he was akin to God of the world or something:

That never gets old. Today’s absurdity from the Post-Dispatch is of the same ilk, and I’ve excerpted a few of the most amusing passages for your Sunday afternoon entertainment (emphasis added):

Four years ago, in endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, we noted his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure. He was unproven, but we found him to be presidential, in all that that word implies.

In that, we have not been disappointed. This is a serious man. And now he is a proven leader. He has earned a second term.

Mr. Obama sees an America where the common good is as important as the individual good. That is the vision on which the nation was founded. It is the vision that has seen America through its darkest days and illuminated its best days. It is the vision that underlies the president’s greatest achievement, the Affordable Care Act…

To expect Barack Obama to have repaired, in four years, what took 30 years to undermine, is simply absurd. He might have gotten further had he not been saddled with an opposition party, funded by plutocrats, that sneers at the word compromise. But even if Mr. Obama had had Franklin Roosevelt’s majorities, the economy would still be in peril…

People who don’t understand the word “socialist” accuse Mr. Obama of being one. But as president he has proven to be pragmatic and conciliatory. He is not one to tilt at windmills. He did not close Guantanamo. He cut deals with anyone who’d come to the table. In health care, banking regulation and most other policy areas, he has practiced the art of the possible.

In foreign policy, after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for doing little more than not being George W. Bush, he has been a centrist. He has stood with Israel, but not as its surrogate. He brought the last of the U.S. troops out of Iraq. He began to wind down the war in Afghanistan — too slowly in our view. He let the nations of the Arab Spring follow their own course to democracy. He used thumb drives instead of bunker busters in Iran…

If more Americans were paying attention, this election would not be close. Barack Obama would win going away, at least 53 to 47, perhaps even 99 to 1.

There’s more, and for a good laugh you really need to read the whole thing. I guess it could be a parody, but it reads like a serious editorial. Is this what passes for a newspaper in St. Louis? Really? If any of our readers are from that area, please tell me there’s another newspaper choice. I can’t imagine the boys and girls at MSNBC would go this far. But then again.

I wonder who the Post-Dispatch endorsed in 1980…