Newsflash: Obama Is Not a god

Posted on September 6, 2009

Despite the media putting halos on Barack’s photos and the hype of hope and change; Obama is mortal. I’ve been explaining something to a lot of folks close to me that are on the other side of the political spectrum, that Obama living up to his promises was impossible. Believe me, there is a lot of deflation and anti-climax going on in real life for Democrats.
It is really easy to understand. If you build high hopes for utopia and the brotherhood of man, you’re bound to miss the mark. You set your goals beyond reach and you won’t reach them. It doesn’t matter if you miss by an inch, you are measured as a complete failure no matter your intentions. This was inevitable with Obama.

What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?

The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chávista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?

But forget the character witnesses. Just look at Obama’s behavior as president, beginning with his first address to Congress. Unbidden, unforced and unpushed by the congressional leadership, Obama gave his most deeply felt vision of America, delivering the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. In American politics, you can’t get more left than that speech and still be on the playing field.

In a center-right country, that was problem enough. Obama then compounded it by vastly misreading his mandate. He assumed it was personal. This, after winning by a mere seven points in a year of true economic catastrophe, of an extraordinarily unpopular Republican incumbent, and of a politically weak and unsteady opponent. Nonetheless, Obama imagined that, as Fouad Ajami so brilliantly observed, he had won the kind of banana-republic plebiscite that grants caudillo-like authority to remake everything in one’s own image.

The spell is definitely broken now, and he may regroup but the damage is done. He is no longer a god in even the most devoted Commie’s mind. He had been pulled down to earth and is a mere mortal. In my opinion, not only mortal but worse than Carter.

Is the Obama team completely incompetent?

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