plant. In other words, I don't think Barack Obama at the convention this week is going to be bragging too much about "millions of new green jobs," more subsidies to Solyndra clones, another stimulus, keeping the deficit at $1 trillion plus, another federal takeover, more juicy details about Obamacare, higher taxes on the greedy, another gas lease denied, or yet more pipelines tabled. He may wish to continue all that, but he surely won't wish to tell us so. Actually, I expect him to do precisely that. The President is a dogmatic, incurious individual, conceited, egotistical, narcissistic, and vain. He is incapable of conceiving himself as being wrong about anything, and is certain that when his perfect plans don't work, it's because they've somehow been sabotaged by "nefarious elements", as opposed to simply being bad ideas to begin with. In every case where his theories have lost out on contract with reality, his reflex response has been to "double down" his bet, committing even more resources to the project, while making veiled (or not-so-veiled) threats against those he defines as "enemies" who seek to thwart him. This is not the behavior of a reasonable individual. It is the behavior of a demagogue. Demagogues do not abruptly become reasonable, even in an election year. I believe he will openly, and proudly, state that he is right, we must do more of everything he has done, and anyone who disagrees will wish they hadn't. That has been his pattern from the beginning,