In response to Jonah Goldberg's opinion piece in LA Times.

Mr. Goldberg called Obama arrogant. I would kindly suggest to Mr. Goldberg that he did a Rip Van Winkle and slept through the past 8 years, or he might need help with his selective memory. I think I should help him out.

Arrogance is:

• "Mission Accomplished".
  
• dividing a world as, "Either you're with us or you're against us."
  
• lying to Americans about the direction of the Iraq war while the number of American casualties in Iraq rose.
  
• selling torture as a necessity to maintain institutions that outlawed torture.
  
• pretending to know the answers, and planting fake journalists to toss you soft questions.
  
• calling Al Gore's budget numbers fuzzy math, then proceeding to double the federal debt and increase spending faster than GDP growth.
  
• lying and hiding the truth about WMDs.
  
• talking about accountability over leaks on Valarie Plame, then pardon Scooter.
  
• suggesting that the Government's spies do not need oversight.
  
• talking about the importance of getting social security solved, but tossing in the towel, unwilling to negotiate.
  
• arguing that deregulation will make the market more efficient, only to see it collapse, and still argue that deregulation is the way to go.
  
• blaming Democrats on the mortgage meltdown, when in 2003, Bush talked up a storm on his Ownership Society, pushing HUD to lower their standards even further.
  

Mr. Goldberg, I hope this primer serves you well; I wouldn't want to see you turn into the laughing stock of opinionated writers.