I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts.
There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity. I don't see how you politically survive this.
The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They're in one reality, he's in another.
The tagline on this piece is "He Was Supposed to be Competent". Says who?
I continue to fall back on the fact that this clown never had a track record of running anything including but not limited to a lemonade stand.
People like Noonan, Brooks, Parker, and Buckley incense me because they're supposed to be a part of self proclaimed right wing intelligentsia but somehow would never seem to listen to the gun and god clinging, yahoo, red necks who kept screaming "This guy hasn't run anything!!!!!!!!!"
For Noonan and company, their support of this guy was no more than an affirmative action play. They so loved the idea that they could vote for an articulate, thoughtful, positive black guy that they totally ignored the fact that "this guy hasn't run anything!!!!!!!"
But now they feel victimized because they believe they were sold a bad bill of goods.
So who's the dumbass here.
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