Are Americans reacting to Christmas terrorist attack on Flight 253 like bunch of spoiled brats?

David Brooks is attempting to use Americans’ reactions to the Obama administration’s mishandling of the Christmas attack on Flight 253 as a teachable moment. Some will see Brooks’ piece as a suckup defense of Obama’s failed propaganda assault on the gullibility that elected him. Most conservatives will see this statement as the essence of what’s wrong in America:

Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can take care of everything, and then grow angry and cynical when it becomes clear they can’t.

What Brooks doesn’t say is that Americans probably are more upset with the dishonest and very political ways that the Obama administration reacted to the obvious bureaucratic screwups that let the Nigerian kid on Flight 253. We all understand screwups. After all, we all screwup things ourselves. We just don’t have to defend our screwups in public. Like all presidents who preceded him, Obama looked out for himself first and everyone knew what he was doing. He just gave us more reasons to not trust his judgment, reports or promises.

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