This time it's not some New York Times writers her were reduced to teenagers at the mere sight of Thne One. Oh no, this time it's the sober Economist who had backed Obama and is wondering where all that Hope and Change (TM) has gone:
HILLARY CLINTON’S most effective quip, in her long struggle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination last year, was that the Oval Office is no place for on-the-job training. It went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver-tongued young senator from Illinois: that he lacked even the slightest executive experience, and that in his brief career he had never really stood up to powerful interests, whether in his home city of Chicago or in the wider world. Might Mrs Clinton have been right about her foe?That's a stunning indictment of President Obama and one of the more overt pieces I've read about the complete lack of trust the left now has in Obama. Yes, he will still have his die-hard supporters who will never admit they were wrong in backing such an amateurish candidate, yet every day we are seeing another major backer question whether or not Obama is up to the job.
...But at home Mr Obama has had a difficult start. His performance has been weaker than those who endorsed his candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped. Many of his strongest supporters—liberal columnists, prominent donors, Democratic Party stalwarts—have started to question him. As for those not so beholden, polls show that independent voters again prefer Republicans to Democrats, a startling reversal of fortune in just a few weeks. Mr Obama’s once-celestial approval ratings are about where George Bush’s were at this stage in his awful presidency. Despite his resounding electoral victory, his solid majorities in both chambers of Congress and the obvious goodwill of the bulk of the electorate, Mr Obama has seemed curiously feeble.
By throwing in a Hillary quote they throw a little salt in the wound as well by showing that not only us on the right were correct in our assessment but that they had a perfectly viable candidate and unceremoniously dumped her for the flavor of the month who turned out to be an amateur on nearly every issue.
It's too late to say this but while the left-wing echo chamber was feeling thrills up and down their collective legs, we on the other side were pointing out the inconvenient fact that he's a lightweight and not nearly ready to ascend to the Oval Office.
Commentary's Jennifer Rubin has more.
Update: More also at Hot Air.
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It's really simple. Obama pulled a massive bait and switch on America.
Obama's budget plans will bankrupt America. In 2 short months he repudiated most of his own campaign and exposed himself as a liar and a farleft, even socialist, politician. First his trillion-dollar boondoggle (Obama’s faux ’stimulus’) and then $16 trillion in spending in four years, will push our debts onto the next generation. Our wealth will be squandered on an over-expansive welfare-stimulus-subsidy-socialist Federal budget that was only 18% of GDP a few years back but thanks to the massive overspending in Washington will soak up 27% of our GDP next year. This massive distortion of economics is harmful to our freedom as well as our prosperity.
Oh, and Obama too boot indirectly endorses the Bush policy in Iraq and now wants to replicate it in Afghanistan. If even 1 in 100 Obama voters voted for that, I'd be shocked.
Obama did not pull anything; his masters did, and still do.
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