Liberalism’s Existential Crisis

commentary mag ^ | 9/2/10 | Peter Wehner

[Nachum]

As the Obama presidency and the Democratic Party continue their journey into the Slough of Despond, it’s interesting to watch Obama’ supporters try to process the unfolding events. Some blame it on a failure to communicate. E.J. Dionne, Jr., for example, ascribes the Democrats’ problems to the fact that Obama “has chosen not to engage the nation in an extended dialogue about what holds all his achievements together.” Joe Klein offers this explanation: “If Obama is not reelected, it will be because he comes across as disdaining

[HiTech RedNeck]

You can fool some of the people all of the time.
You can fool all of the people some of the time.
But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

[tet68]

Obama distaining? Perish the thought.

[Will88]

And Slate’s Jacob Weisberg has written that “the biggest culprit in our current predicament” is the “childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.”

That's a fairly good description of some of the factors which allowed Obama to be elected in the first place.

[Canedawg]

"ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.”

This is the rotten fruit that grew from the dumbing down of America.

[ully2]

This is the rotten fruit that grew from the dumbing down of America.

It fell from the NEA tree of learning.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[purplelobster]

The Dems problem is that they were perfectly happy when Bush was President and they were chronically complaining on a daily basis about Bush and his evil Henchmen. Now that they are in charge they have no clue what they are doing and continue bumbling with panicked confusion as to why all of their plans fail. They seem as if they want to lose the next two elections so that they can return to complaining, nitpicking and fingerpointing as it’s what they do best.