He goes on...
Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that’s weighed his presidency down — the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha.
Here was a place to draw a clean line between himself and all the overzealous Obamaphiles, at home and abroad, who poured their post-Christian, post-Marxist yearnings into the vessel of his 2008 campaign.
Here was a chance to establish himself, definitively, as an American president — too self-confident to accept an unearned accolade, and too instinctively democratic to go along with European humbug.
He didn't take it. Instead, he took the Nobel Peace Prize.
Douthat called it a "big mistake." He's right
As for the headline, it's an allusion to what George W. Bush said to FEMA director Michael Brown, "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job." Those words haunt the former president to this day.
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