[Tolik]

Multiple titles for the same article

NRO:

Obama’s Descent to Earth
It’s hard to maintain a celestial conceit for four years — even if you believe it yourself.

Real Clear Politics:

Obama's Altitude Sickness

[SERKIT]

Free fall giving Barry the Bends?

[just me]

Obama is about Obama nothing else.. Just like Hillary is for Hillary....

[nuconvert]

BUMP

[auto power]

Charles always hits the nail squarely on the head!

[Devilinbaggypants]

For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great.

It's no surprise when you look at the progressives and how they give more credibility to a teen celebrity who flunked out of high school. Thank goodness that even the MSM has started to get a bad taste in their mouths as they realize that it takes just a little more than celebrity status to manage the country!

[Tolik]

It worth reading just for enjoyment of the language alone

Charles Krauthammer:

 Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great.

Obama's meteoric rise was based not on issues -- there was not a dime's worth of difference between him and Hillary on issues -- but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.

It was inevitable. Obama had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever.

The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers -- the chants, the swoons, the "we are the ones" self-infatuation.

Reagan's revolution was rooted in concrete political ideas (supply-side economics, welfare-state deregulation, national strength) that transcended one man. For Obama's movement, the man is the transcendence.

Which gave the Obama campaign a cult-like tinge.

... his triumphal declaration that history would note that night, his victory, his ascension, as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

 That grandiloquent proclamation of universalist puffery popped the bubble. The grandiosity had become bizarre.

...One star fades, another is born.

Nailed It!

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[N. Theknow]

Obama needs to go to a diner in New Hampshire and tell us all about how *sniffle* difficult it is.

[N. Theknow]

Obama without a teleprompter speaks in tongues.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers -- "

The turning point was when he didn't fly over the Brandenburg Gate after his speech in Berlin. He's been running out of tricks since then. The followers are starting to lose faith in him.

[syriacus]

Nice! Maybe Obama should run for VP.

[CarryingOn]

There's is more truth than satire in comparing Obama to narcissistic “entertainers.” That became readily apparent to mature voter's that understood the importance of what they were about.

[gridlock]

Krauthammer reveals, again, why he is the best of the best.

He encapsulates the entire arc of the Obama campaign in one column. I defy anybody to read this and not nod their head obvious truths contained. The thing that makes Krauthammer great is that nobody else has done this column this well before.

I know we’re supposed to be hatin’ on Krauthammer these days, but I just can’t do it. The man’s just too good.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Borrowing your favorite term, Charles “Nails It!” Even more delicious, it’s difficult to see how the Messiah comes out of this tailspin.

Keep an eye out on Joe Biden coming down with some serious health issues. It may be time for “Hitlery to the Rescue!”

[Martin Tell]

From Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I (one of my favorite political plays), Henry IV to his son:

I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at; That men would tell their children ‘This is he.’

One thing about comets is that they are of short duration. Henry IV was a comet; his son, Henry V, is compared to the sun.

Now is the time for the Palin-sunshine's brilliance to obliterate the puny 0bama comet.

[loveliberty2]

But, with reference to the comment about those who will vote because they want change, a poster to Ann Coulter's site the other day wrote:

"Coincidentally, [my wife] and I were in Miami last week, and ended up striking a conversation with an older Cuban couple in the next table. When it emerged that they came from Cuba in 1960, I said: "Right after Fidel." The guy did not miss a beat before responding: "Yes, we know what "change" looks like."

A thought worth pondering . . . .

[dforest]

The Democrats 1st mistake goes all the way back to the primaries.

They could have won it but.....Hillary should have been the top of the ticket and Obama as veep.

I bet they wish they would have pushed this. They can’t un ring the bell even if they dump Biden and put Hillary on the ticket.

If the messiah tries this it will be proof that he is a loser.

[wardaddy]

Khammers tepid support for Plain disappointed me but he does write some decent stuff sometime.

[Christian4Bush]

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[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

To top himself, Obama had to reach. Hence his triumphal declaration that history would note that night, his victory, his ascension, as “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Heh heh.

[SunkenCiv]

Palin is not just a problem for Obama. She is also a symptom of what ails him. Before Palin, Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great. Which is why McCain's Paris Hilton ads struck such a nerve. Obama's meteoric rise was based not on issues -- there was not a dime's worth of difference between him and Hillary on issues -- but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.

The unease at the Denver convention, the feeling of buyer's remorse, was the Democrats' realization that the arc of Obama's celebrity had peaked -- and had now entered a period of its steepest decline. That Palin could so instantly steal the celebrity spotlight is a reflection of that decline.