Tuesday, September 8, 2009

It's really Obama, not Van Jones or Pelosi or Reid.

http://tinyurl.com/kszbxq
After disastrous summer, Obama has fallen to Earth By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER...the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chavista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?...beginning with his first address to Congress...delivering the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. In American politics, you can't get more left than that speech and still be on the playing field.
...after winning by a mere seven points in a year of true economic catastrophe, of an extraordinarily unpopular Republican incumbent, and of a politically weak and unsteady opponent....Obama imagined that,...he had won the kind of banana-republic plebiscite that grants caudillo-like authority to remake everything in one's own image...animating that vision by enacting measure after measure that greatly enlarged state power, government spending and national debt....With answers so slippery and implausible and, well, fishy, he began jeopardizing the most fundamental asset of any new president — trust...When ordinary citizens understand they are being played for fools, they bristle....For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden,...mere mortal, a treacherous transformation to which a man of Obama's supreme self-regard may never adapt.

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