Cluebat Wacks The Economist
Yet another Obama endorsing entity realizes that “gee, maybe Obama really doesn’t have what it takes.” The Economist: Learning The Hard Way
HILLARY CLINTON’S most effective quip, in her long struggle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination last year, was that the Oval Office is no place for on-the-job training. It went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver-tongued young senator from Illinois: that he lacked even the slightest executive experience, and that in his brief career he had never really stood up to powerful interests, whether in his home city of Chicago or in the wider world. Might Mrs Clinton have been right about her foe?
Not altogether. In foreign policy in particular Mr Obama has already done some commendable things. He has held out a sincere hand to Iran; he has ordered Guantánamo closed within a year; he has set himself firmly against torture. He has, as the world and this newspaper wanted, taken a less strident tone in dealing with friends and rivals alike.
But at home Mr Obama has had a difficult start. His performance has been weaker than those who endorsed his candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped. Many of his strongest supporters—liberal columnists, prominent donors, Democratic Party stalwarts—have started to question him. As for those not so beholden, polls show that independent voters again prefer Republicans to Democrats, a startling reversal of fortune in just a few weeks. Mr Obama’s once-celestial approval ratings are about where George Bush’s were at this stage in his awful presidency. Despite his resounding electoral victory, his solid majorities in both chambers of Congress and the obvious goodwill of the bulk of the electorate, Mr Obama has seemed curiously feeble.
We told ya so! Or, to put it nicer, we can got to Jennifer Rubin, not like we didn’t see this coming
The Economist had Obama pegged wrong. Yes, there is an element of managerial incompetence, but the real issue is that the Right was correct about Obama: he’s an ultra-liberal at least on domestic policy, not a pragmatic centrist either on policy or in style. His mode of governance — denigrate the opposition, engage in ad hominem attacks, refuse to compromise on substantive policy, disguise radical policy intentions with a haze of meaningless rhetoric — bespeaks someone supremely confident in his ideological views…
And you know who was else was right? The guy Obama picked as V.P., who said “I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.” And the quote seems to be something else The Economist got wrong, since as far as 10 minutes of Google searches finds, she didn’t say that.
Unfortunately, there are no lemon laws for nationally elected officials.
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Posted by William Teach on March 28, 2009 10:01 am
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Wow, I wonder how so many millions of us knew, but not enough to keep him in the senate where he couldn’t do very much harm.
This guy has spent a good bit of his adult life hanging out with thieves, liars con-artists and terrorists, and he wasn’t affected? Yeah riiiight.
Reality is intervening rapidly. In an act of self-preservation, the NYT ran three critical Op-Eds last weekend… and even asked him on AF1 if he’s “a socialist”. In response, Obama feigned surprise and even called back to ask them if they were “joking”… then ignored them in the next presser to call on far-left bloggers and Ebony magazine instead.
And the failed bond auctions and calls for an international reserve currency are bringing reality to Obama’s Bolshevik spending fantasies… hopefully the American public will now sense that not only do we not have the money… but nobody is willing to loan it to us, either.
Zogby already has him at 50% approval… and tanking.
Next… bring on the tea parties!
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All other polls have him at around 60, so I wouldn’t believe the Zogby poll. Obama still has plenty of time to do what it is he wants to do before the public- save for the far right- begins to become disillusioned with him.
Our vaunted “fourth Estate ” spent all its time excoriating President 43 while exempting President 44 from any exposure about his past experiences.It is still “the awful presidency”of President 43 and the “commendable things “for President 44 in foreign policy, is the nexus of this expired format.You created this problem and are perplexed by the “on-the-Job-training,” is the height of hypocrisy.Perhaps you could switch your critical lens from Bush and apply President44 toit.