The establisment is turning on Obama
I keep reading story after story in the Mainstream media that is critical of Obama. I am not referring to right-wing web sites, or even FoxNews, but left-leaning Liberal news outlets like the Washington Post and Newsweek. Salon.com, a very liberal website, has an article criticizing Obama’s “clumsy” and “smirky” staff for “sinking him.” No arguments there. Here is an excerpt:
Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons — his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship.
Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama’s first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection. (Michelle, please use those fabulous toned arms to butt some heads!)
First it was that chaotic pig rut of a stimulus package, which let House Democrats throw a thousand crazy kitchen sinks into what should have been a focused blueprint for economic recovery. Then it was the stunt of unnerving Wall Street by sending out a shrill duo of slick geeks (Timothy Geithner and Peter Orszag) as the administration’s weirdly adolescent spokesmen on economics. Who could ever have confidence in that sorry pair?
Newsweek is also especially critical. The headline of the article is very telling:
Obama still has the approval of the people, but the establishment is beginning to mumble that the president may not have what it takes.
I don’t think there is any doubt that wise Democrats are starting to question their Manchurian Candidate. Obama’s long series of mistakes, blunders, and outright lies and hypocrisy have cast a shadow on who was built up to be the New Messiah. Rather than save the world, he has cost us countless trillions in the stock market and trillions more in wasteful, pork-laden government spending under the guise of “stimulus.” When Newsweek criticizes Obama, something has changed. Here is an excerpt:
Luckily for Obama, the public still likes and trusts him, at least judging by the latest polls, including NEWSWEEK’s. But, in ways both large and small, what’s left of the American establishment is taking his measure and, with surprising swiftness, they are finding him lacking.
They have some reasons to be concerned. I trace them to a central trait of the president’s character: he’s not really an in-your-face guy. By recent standards—and that includes Bill Clinton as well as George Bush—Obama for the most part is seeking to govern from the left, looking to solidify and rely on his own party more than woo Republicans. And yet he is by temperament judicious, even judicial. He’d have made a fine judge. But we don’t need a judge. We need a blunt-spoken coach.
Perhaps electing an unproven, inexperienced Socialist during the biggest economic crisis in 8 decades was not a wise decision.
