Is Obamageddon here, or is Steven den Beste’s election post mortem correct?

Over at Ace’s and at his own site, Slublog recommended Steven den Beste’s commentary on the coming Obama presidency, which den Beste titles, “It’s not the end of the world.” Sure hope not. But there’s plenty of bad news in it, and I didn’t think anybody could be more pessimistic than me.

Here’s one overview, which I really agree with, especially the last sentence:

I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn’t respond to benign behavior benignly.

But I couldn’t disagree more with this:

Obama and Congressional Democrats will do things that cause harm, but very little of it will be irreversible.

That might be true for simple statutory changes, like union card check, but I think it is a crazy thought when it comes to the creation of new bureaucracies. Can you think of any significant ones we’ve gotten rid of?

Here’s one of the “good” things den Beste sees from the election and the course of the campaign, and another thing I disagree with:

It is no longer possible for anyone to deny that the MSM is heavily biased. The MSM have been biased for decades but managed an illusion of fairness. That is no longer possible; the MSM have squandered their credibility during this campaign. They’ll never get that credibility back again.

Oh, how I wish he were right, but I doubt it. Everyone saying this already knew the media was biased, and I don’t think the media’s pathetic performance in vetting Obama changed the minds of many people about the media except at the margins. The media will continue to deny, deny, deny, and doesn’t appear to be the least bit embarrassed by its performance. The ranks of those who think the media is left wing might have grown slightly, but not enough. A large portion of the electorate will remain sheep.

And here are three of den Beste’s most frightening predictions for an Obama presidency:

2. The US hasn’t suffered a terrorist attack by al Qaeda since 9/11, but we’ll get at least one during Obama’s term.

3. We’re going to lose in Afghanistan.

4. Iran will get nuclear weapons. There will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel. (This is the only irreversibly terrible thing I see upcoming, and it’s very bad indeed.)

On those, I sure hope he’s wrong.