Barack Obama is becoming a black Jimmy Carter if Jimmy Carter had been running the White House with Lyndon Johnson. Like those two previous Presidents, Obama reveals some principles, but they’re completely circumcised by a pathetic lack of ballsack.

In the last few months, Obama has backed down from several major elements of the platform that elected him. He has completely left gay rights twisting in the wind. He bailed on the public health option, something he promised would be a cornerstone of his Presidency. And those troops haven’t exactly returned in vast numbers from the Middle East.

Now it looks like they might never come home. In a televised address that will become a landmark moment of his Presidency, Obama announced that he is ordering 30,000 troops to deploy in Afghanistan. This is comparable to L.B.J. escalating the Vietnam conflict in order to crush it … a plan that worked about as well as Britney cutting her own hair. We have no idea what the troops will be trying to accomplish over there. But it will likely involve dying. The only difference between this situation and Vietnam is that we don’t have a band as cool as Creedence to write protest songs about it.

If you really want some sensible thinking on this matter, listen to the brilliance of Michael Moore. While I’m not a huge fan of the guy, what he says here is 200% correct: