This moment -- involving a 200-plus year-old bottle of wine that almost certainly turned to vinegar long ago -- marks the first time that the scales fall from Andre's eyes and he begins to see that the French-speaking, Princeton-educated starlet, who first won fame in the movie The Blue Lagoon, is not the one for him. It is the beginning of a terrible case of buyer's remorse.
The American people are now getting the same sinking feeling in their relationship with Barack Obama. They see that they elected a president who -- trusting in his own innate wisdom and mental superiority -- doesn't know or care what they think, and who seems strangely indifferent to their well-being.
With his decision to use the misnamed "reconciliation" process in Congress to ram his hugely expensive and wildly unpopular health care legislation down the throats of the American people, the president, in a metaphorical sense, is holding up a dust-covered bottle… and telling us that we must drink from it. He is doing this even though most people, after prolonged consideration of the matter, are convinced that the contents of the bottle are bad, and that it comes at a price that might just drive the country into bankruptcy.
