Set your expectations as low as possible, and you won't be disappointed.

But try as you might to be sufficiently world-weary about it, you still might be amazed at the utter valuelessness of this historically historic presidency.

In court papers, the administration said the appeals court ruled correctly in this case when it found that "don't ask, don't tell" is "rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in military discipline and cohesion."

Praise him or damn him for it, Bill Clinton famously compromised up a Rube Goldberg form of provisional rights for gays in the military.

A decade-and-a-half on, there is massively more support for gay rights in every segment of American life. Except in Obamaland, that is.

Arthur has a time-saving tip:

Don't try to keep a list of all of Obama's broken "promises." Instead, keep a list of the promises you think he made that he's kept. In this manner, your work will be brief and undemanding.

At the moment, I can't think of a single issue of importance that would appear on a list of promises Obama wanted us to believe he was making, and that he has kept. Not even one.

Obama, as Richard Florida famously observed, is the President of the Creative Class. And the creativity is simply boundless (via):

The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.

The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques. It could also allow the five detainees who have been charged with the Sept. 11 attacks to achieve their stated goal of pleading guilty to gain what they have called martyrdom....

David Glazier, an associate professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles... said: “This unfortunately strikes me as an effort to get rid of the problem in the easiest way possible, which is to have those people plead guilty and presumably be executed."

We snatch up "enemy combatants," render them to god-knows-where, do god-knows-what-to-them (no pictures, please, we're American), and hold them until god-knows-when, and in the extremely noble and generous case that we one day decide to press charges, we offer them the humane and tidy option of assisted suicide. I guess that's what you should expect from a bleeding-heart liberal — coddling terrorists — but what can you do? The man's a God. Yeah.