Please Excuse My President (Deluded Libs Spin Zero's Failures)

Commentary ^ | June 2012 | Peter Wehner

[mojito]

Few things are more difficult in politics than confronting failure and learning from it. It is especially difficult when a leader you have championed, and in whom you have placed your highest hopes, turns out to be less than he seemed.

Such is the dilemma facing liberals in the age of Obama. Barack Obama entered the presidency with his sights and standards very high, and many liberals believed he could be the transformative figure they had been awaiting for generations. But by now it is clear that, by any reasonable measure (including those set out by Obama himself at the beginning of his term), his presidency has been a failure.

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Three new books, each by authors favorably disposed to Obama, attempt to explain the declining arc of his presidency. Noam Scheiber’s The Escape Artists (Simon & Schuster, 368 pages) and David Corn’s Showdown (William Morrow, 432 pages) offer a behind-the-scenes look at the Obama White House. Scheiber focuses exclusively on the president’s economic team, and Corn covers everything from debt-ceiling negotiations to the killing of Osama bin Laden. In the third book, Overreach (Princeton University Press, 248 pages), presidential scholar George C. Edwards III provides a more academic and detached analysis of Obama’s failures and tries to put them in perspective.

Taken together, these books offer a sense of what the president’s champions and defenders think has gone wrong, with Scheiber and Corn in particular beginning to suggest how liberals will rationalize Obama’s first term should his failures prove fatal to his securing a second.

[mojito]

St. Barry is just too brilliant, too pure, too unflappable, too nonpartisan, too committed, too unselfish, and just too darned good for America. Especially a racist, nasty, lowbrow tea party America.

[Huskrrrr]

Sucks to be you, Pete.

[oldbrowser]

O’bumbler’s failures will stand as an historical monument to naivety for a century.

[Tzimisce]

Obama ruined my economy and destroyed my country and all I got was some withering old lib’s miserable excuses and cop outs.

[Magic Fingers]

“Three new books, each by authors favorably disposed to Obama, attempt to explain the declining arc of his presidency.”

The explanation is that socialism doesn’t work.

[mojito]

Pete used to be a speech writer for George W. Bush, so he's not best of friends of libs, and this article gives them and Zero a pretty good lashing. Altogether, Pete's pretty much an eastern establishment sort of Republican. A Romney supporter. Maybe not an out and out RINO, but not a tea partier either. Still, he's been ripping on Zero quite a bit lately.

[Huskrrrr]

Didn’t know that, thanks for the info.

[paudio]

Suck to be you, Pete

And why is that? I read the article and nowhere did I get that impression. If anything, he said "Suck to be a Democrat" today.

[Huskrrrr]

I read the article too. In particular:

“Add to this the fact that the president’s signature domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is among the most unpopular major domestic policies passed in the last century; and that the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, widely known as Obama’s stimulus package, is so unpopular that his aides have virtually expelled the word stimulus from their lexicon.”

The policies of your party have failed, and failed big!

[paudio]

Now I’m genuinely confused. When you wrote Pete, you meant the author of the article, right? Or somebody else?
In any case, the article’s main message is it’s bad to be Democrats today. So, I’m not sure what you meant by ‘your party’.