There was a time back before she won her Pulitzer for whatever it is she does, when Maureen Dowd turned on Bill Clinton. I think it was the Monica Lewinsky scandal, what with Maureen having so obviously been the cheated on one so often in her personal life....but she turned on the President, and she turned on him hard. She rode her criticism of Bill Clinton for all it was worth, and she's been dining out on the fame it produced ever since.
I think we're beginning to see the same thing with Richard Cohen and Barack Obama. I think he's turning on our President, beginning to see what a superficial shell of a man he really is. And it is happening before our eyes. More please. Much more.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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You want more? Committed lefty Howard Fineman wrote a delicious piece the other day entitled The Limits of Charisma...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/216210
What does it say for the political acumen of our "would be" political pundits and commentators that they were not astute enough before the election to see how inexperienced and shallow our president was and continues to be?
The Manchurian President
by Stephen Green
It’s a little early in his administration to draw any broad conclusions, but the evidence is clear: As a younger man, Barack Obama was kidnapped and brainwashed by evil Republican operatives, then sent deep undercover to destroy the Democratic Party and perhaps even the entire liberal worldview.
How else do you explain:
• Obama leaving his signature domestic reform — health care — in the hands of people least likely to come up with a plan palatable to a majority of Americans.
• Within six months of assuming office, the Democrats’ left and center wings are at each other’s throats.
• A cap and trade bill so horrendously corrupt and mismanaged that its passage in the House marked the first time in years that Republicans out-polled Democrats on the generic congressional ballot.
• A candidate who called Afghanistan “the necessary war,” is now on his second major review, just since March, of how to fight it.
• Never meeting once face-to-face with the general in charge of commanding that “necessary war.”
• Telling the world Gitmo was evil, then leaving it open for business.
• Sitting on intelligence, until just this Friday, showing that Iran’s WMD program is more advanced than feared.
• Selling out Eastern Europe to the Russians. We haven’t had a Democrat do that since Roosevelt.
• A foreign policy initiative for Iran which relies on the idea of both China and Russia not selling stuff to somebody with cash to spend?
• Bailing out banks with hundreds of billions of dollars, yet still without removing a single toxic asset.
• Signing a non-stimulating stimulus so massive that Americans are afraid of deficits for the first time since Ross Perot went around screaming about his crazy aunt.
• A Democrat under threat of scaring off the AARP vote? I mean, what the hell?
Obama's term as president will be known as the Peter Principle Presidency
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