Each week, the members of the Watchers' Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for the week's best post. Last week's posts focusing mostly on domestic issues and dynamics, though the foreign policy stuff was... biting.

There were three foreign policy posts, one of which pointed out that Obama has created a certain kind of Nobel-worthy tranquility (cf. my post using the exact same conceit, published a little more than a week after Joshuapundit used the theme - figures). The Razor pointed out that Biden's delusions of AfPak relevance have now become out and out dangerous, while Right Truth highlighted the President's amoral and illiberal foreign policy in that charming part of the world.

A few of the domestic posts mused about the post-partisan utopia in which Obama's America finds itself ensconced. The Glittering Eye outlined the historical Columbus, one which has been replaced in textbooks by a politically correct, vaguely anti-European caricatures. Fast forwarding to the current day and per the Colossus Of Rhodey, media outlets were willing to basically fabricate quotes as part of a leftist demonization campaign. The Provocateur explored partisanship from the other direction, finding more than a few argumentative slights of hand on the right. Partisan tensions are such that even levelheaded conservatives are talking about the de facto outlawing of conservatism. Rhymes With Right found himself actually having to justify the 1st amendment, which I'm pretty sure we used to rely on implicitly.

At least Obama can always count on the support of the American Jewish community. This is the same community that's recently taken to hosting venemous antisemitic hatefests - complete with calls for the destruction of the Jewish State - in San Francisco. Any port in a storm, huh? Though for what it's worth the Bay Area isn't totally toxic to conservatism or patriotism though. There are enough pro-military families there to justify hosting the Blue Angels show that Bookworm Room discussed. I know, I was as surprised as anyone.

References and previously after the jump...