Pinning the Tail On the Donkey

SEE HERE  Mychal Massie's column back in February 22, 2012 reminded me of these lines from T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?

I suppose the reason I was reminded is that I thought Massie's characterization of Barack Obama and his wife was spot-on and captured the fundamental character of the couple, a couple bent on a program of transforming America into something Americans would not recognize anymore as the nation of opportunity that they or their fathers had come to in order to succeed and prosper.