For all their current prestige Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state Illinois.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.