On the rise and fall of the Obama Empire...
Oh Peggy, Peggy! Have you come back to the fold, my dear? Did that little fling not work out for you?
Oh Peggy, Peggy! Have you come back to the fold, my dear? Did that little fling not work out for you?
Peggy on Obama in 2008
Ah, he didn't look quite so lovely, so charming, so...so vaguely humorous in the cruel morning light, did he? I feel your pain, sister. Have a vodka tonic and tell us all about it. (excerpted; to read the entire delicious piece, click on the link in bold)
A Snakebit President
(accompanying soundtrack, you're welcome!)
The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered.It isn't Mr. Obama's fault that an oil rig blew in the Gulf and a gusher resulted. He already had two wars and the great recession. But the lack of adequate federal government response appropriately redounds on him.The administration's failure to take impressive action after the spill dinged its reputation for competence. The president's failure to turn things around Tuesday night with a speech damaged his reputation as a man whose rhetorical powers are such that he can turn things around with a speech. He lessened his own mystique. Reaction among his usual supporters was, in the words of Time's Mark Halperin, "fierce, unforeseen disappointment." Dan Froomkin of the Huffington Post called the speech "profoundly underwhelming," a "feeble call to action." Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich called the speech "vapid." Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times said the president looked "awkward and robotic." MSNBC's Keith Olbermann famously said "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days." Chris Matthews scored "a lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk." Mr. Olbermann, on Mr. Obama's well-written peroration: "It's nice but, again, how? Where was the 'how' in this speech when the nation is crying out for 'how'?"
The right didn't like the speech either.Well now Peggy, it depends on what you mean by "like". I can tell you it was my favorite speech by far. The excuses, obfuscations, feigned emotion, and startling display of fecklessness (startling to Democrats, anyway) were no more than I expected, but the uncontrolled dismay of freshly disillusioned pundits was more than I could have hoped for. It was the best laugh I've had since Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, and then Scott Brown collectively humiliated Obama by handily defeating the losers he'd backed. The shock and horror of the leftist media had me in stitches. "This is not a referendum on Obama". Before that, the "Best Side-Splitter" went to the reaction to Chicago losing the Olympics in the first round..
Chicago is out?!
Be still, my heart. I knew when Obama was elected that it would be a disaster for the country. The only light I saw at the end of the tunnel was the possibility of the conservative-minded general public being galvanized into action by the sheer magnitude of the disaster that is Obama & Company. Lo and behold, the recoil has exceeded my hopes. What I didn't foresee was Obama coming unglued less than two years in. Coming unglued to such a degree that Chris Matthews and his ilk can't cover for him.
Let us all bow our heads and observe a moment of silence over the bloody shambles of the 'progressive' dream. (after we stop laughing hysterically)
