0bama is turning out to be Jimmy Carter’s second term.
People forget (too busy watching Springer), but Peanut Man was wildly popular at home and abroad as well - before winds of fickle public opinion shifted.
Carter was never a cult-like messianic figure. I lived in New York and even Democrats thought he was a bit off out of the gate, but any Democrat seemed preferrable to the demonized Nixon. He made a total hash of the economy and foreign relations. The Iran hostage crisis was the toxic icing on a repulsive cake.
Obama is Jimmy Carter....only in COLOR!