Let’s see….he has no leadership, economic, business, or foreign policy experience, but the Leftards didn’t want someone like Sarah Palin as V.P. Boy, we sure dodged that bullet, didn’t we?
On March 20, only two months after the cosmic anointing, Vanity Fair, of all places, unloaded on Barack Obama, in the terms it had reserved for the past four or five years for the likes of George W. Bush.
Well, not the whole magazine, but one of its writers, media writer Michael Wolff, took an axe to the president, in a posting beginning “Sheesh, the guy is Jimmy Carter,” ending “This guy is leaden and this show is in trouble,” and titled “Barack Obama is a Terrible Bore.”
The same day, ex-fan Peggy Noonan called him “insubstantial and weightless…not fully focused…jumping from issue to issue and venue to venue from day to day.” “The administration’s difficulties…have created an unfortunate impression of incompetence,” said The Economist. Politico noted that his skills as a salesman have begun to desert him.
It all came at the end of what Rick Klein of ABC News called Obama’s ‘lost week,’ which got worse on Sunday, when he was attacked by the New York Times in three columns and one editorial. One warned of an oncoming fall of Katrina dimensions. And these were his friends.
……the financial crisis he was hired to fix has only grown worse under his tutelage, losing another 2,000-plus points on the Dow since his ascension. Second, the ‘smoothest transition on record’ stopped being smooth when Bush went back to Texas, and has since been a mélange of scandals and dithering. Third, the immense sums in his budget are starting to stun the more moderate Democrats, not to mention the Obamacons, who once put their hopes in his ‘moderate’ temperament.
Fourth, he and some of his high-profile picks have shown a repeated addiction to unforced errors and slights—mixing up names, misplacing dates, dissing Nancy Reagan, dissing the British Prime Minister, dissing the Special Olympics, created and run by John Kennedy’s sister—giving the impression the administration is run by the under-informed and the boorish and socially compromised.
……The markets are down, the price tags are up, the British are piqued, and the independents are heading back to the Republicans, who now have a (slight) lead in the generic ballot, for the first time in nearly three years.
Obama’s teleprompter has its own blog, its own code name—Totus— and is building a following. One laughs with it, and at him, which cannot be promising. For a would-be Messiah, this is hardly good news.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/NoemieEmery/Death-of-the-Obama-dream-41801612.html
A rude awakening…just 65 days into his holiness’ reign. Sucks when the halo gets tarnished.