Posted on 11/30/2009 1:48:27 PM PST by caddystacks
From journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures, a fiery denunciation of—and warning for—the White House. In a piece in Politico on the firing of White House counsel Greg Craig, Ms. Drew reports that while the president was in Asia last week, "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man." They once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama," and were key to his rise, but now they are concluding that the president isn't "the person of integrity or even classiness they had thought."
Just as stinging as Elizabeth Drew on domestic matters was Leslie Gelb on Mr. Obama and foreign policy in the Daily Beast. Mr. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and fully plugged into the Democratic foreign-policy establishment, wrote this week that the president's Asia trip suggested "a disturbing amateurishness in managing America's power." The president's Afghanistan review has been "inexcusably clumsy," Mideast negotiations have been "fumbling." So unsuccessful was the trip that Mr. Gelb suggested Mr. Obama take responsibility for it "as President Kennedy did after the Bay of Pigs."
He added that rather than bowing to emperors—Mr. Obama "seems to do this stuff spontaneously and inexplicably"—he should begin to bow to "the voices of experience" in Washington.
When longtime political observers start calling for wise men, a president is in trouble.
also raises a distressing question: Who are the wise men and women now?
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Whatsa matter Peggy? Thought you were on the band wagon. Are your opinions based on anything other than going with the pack? Why don't ya just come out and say that you thought he was wonderfulness personified, that you didn't look at his past, and you've screwed up?
You were on the band wagon.
"I was...wwwrrrrr....wwwwrrr....WRONG!"
I made a mmmmm...mmmmmisss....a MISTAKE!
I know, I know. It's hard to say.
As all the polls are now below 50% we may be approaching the tipping point where the liberal establishment and media throw him under the bus.
I wonder if this is Peggy’s way of admitting she was wrong?
He himself seems a fairly chilly customer; perhaps in turn he inspires chilly support. But presidents need that rock-bottom 20% who, no matter what's happening—war, unemployment—adore their guy, have complete faith in him, and insist that you love him, too.Let's not mince words, Peggy. It's race.
They're the hard 20 a president always keeps. Nixon kept them! Obama probably has a hard 20 too, but whatever is keeping them close, it doesn't seem to be love.
1968 - After the “Quagmire” episode. If we’ve lost Walter we’ve lost the war.
An obvious move that only a true fool would not see the necessity of at this point.
LoL! So even the old lib pundits are wrinkling up their noses and realizing that the dog doo they smell is in Obowmao’s shoe.
Bush's fault.
"Look! A 1927 Indian-head nickel!!!"
Well they have lost Katie! is that close enough to Walter?
The funny part is that now that he has bowed to a few leaders, he is he actually INSULTING the ones he doesnt bow to! And you can’t just say its because they are royalty. All the queen of England got was a slap on the back and an ipod! LOL
“But of course just because they say you’re stupid doesn’t mean you’re Lincoln.”
Great line.
He has his “wise men”: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and whole college faculties full of Marxist ideologues in Political Science, Keynesian Economics, Junk Science, etc. What he needs is some experienced, responsible, pragmatic people. I can't think of any old hands from either the Clinton or Carter administrations that would do anything more than make things worse. Maybe Abe Burrows .....
All the uninformed, judgment impaired 0bama voters should wake up every day knowing they voted to destroy their own children’s future.
>> So many media types thought they were electing Josiah Bartlett from “the West Wing” as President, and they got Homer J. Simpson, instead.
You just KNOW the Hillary crowd is going to come unglued on them, at some point. <<
I wish the PUMAs would wake the heck up and soon....
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