Given his predilection for relying on the Easy button, it’s no surprise that Obama hoped the McChrystal firing would serve as a Reset button. Instead, it has merely highlighted the very weaknesses in his “leadership” that have led to plummeting approval ratings. Rather than serving as a brake on his descent, the firing at best made no difference and at worst has accelerated its pace.
Obama’s advisors—not to mention leaders in Congress—have got to be thinking to themselves “how many more shoes can possibly drop before Election Day?” With the hurricane season ramping up in the Gulf, the Blago trial in full swing, things heating up in the Middle East and the Koreas, and what’s shaping up to be a double-dip recession, it would be astonishing if there weren’t one or more additional catastrophes that will put Obama’s bumbling on full display.
His ratings have declined to the point where people expect him to bungle matters: the only issue is how he will do it. Under these circumstances, it would require something extraordinary (think of Bush’s remarks with the firefighters at the 9/11 site) to turn around public opinion.
Zero doesn't have it in him. How can something like that ever materialize on a teleprompter???