Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Political Mortality
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My favorite bit:
Let’s be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He’s not been repudiated or even defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.
But what has occurred — irreversibly — is this: He’s become ordinary. The spell is broken. The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic. He’s regressed to the mean, tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50 percent.
For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for his acolytes, a crushing disappointment. Obama has become a politician like others. And like other flailing presidents, he will try to salvage a cherished reform — and his own standing — with yet another prime-time speech.
But for the first time since election night in Grant Park, he will appear in the most unfamiliar of guises — mere mortal, a treacherous transformation to which a man of Obama’s supreme self-regard may never adapt.
I guess “Yes we can” has become: “Yes but can we?”
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10:04 PM
The only thing that dropped faster than Ted Kennedy’s car into the river has been Obama’s political capital and popularity so get ready for a Republican majority in Congress in 2010!
10:06 PM
Is anyone still listening to Obama’s speeches? I stopped a long time ago, and I have a better attention span than most.
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10:29 PM
Stopped listening?
11:05 PM
Yeah, I stopped listening to his speeches. They are way too long, and tend to say very little in such a long period of time. Not a great way to address the culture that gave us Twitter.
.-= burro´s last blog ..I fell for it =-.
12:14 AM
Sometimes you don’t need to smell something to know that it stinks.
12:07 PM
Charisma isn’t going to save Obama now.
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12:46 PM
An excellent bit to be sure, and extremely accurate.
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