Peggy Noonan : He Can't Take Another Bow

Wall Street Journal ^ | November 24, 2009 | Peggy Noonan

[RobinMasters]

This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of voters, though polls there show steady decline, but in two core constituencies, Washington's Democratic-journalistic establishment, and what might still be called the foreign-policy establishment.

From journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures, a fiery denunciation of—and warning for—the White House. In a piece in Politico on the firing of White House counsel Greg Craig, Ms. Drew reports that while the president was in Asia last week, "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man." They once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama," and were key to his rise, but now they are concluding that the president isn't "the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought."

[JrsyJack]

60 or so posts and no one has said it yet, you guys are slipping. Oh by the way...

“This is not the Barack Obama I know” MSM per Peggy Noonan.

[Stentor]

Peggy writes like she’s addicted to belladonna and opium suppositories.

[RichInOC]

Not an image I particularly needed rattling around my head, thanks.

[okie01]

America seems short of wise men, or short on those who are universally agreed to be wise. ...it is hard for a great nation to function without the presence of a group of "the oldest and wisest" who can not only give sound advice but help engineer how that advice will be reported and received.

Peggy, tell me, didn't the "wise men" (and "wise women") enthusiastically support the election of this President?

Now that he is known to be both radical and incompetent, seems to me the "wise men" (and "wise women") are only now catching up with the rest of us common, ordinary people.

So, why should we respect the opinions of these "wise men" (and "wise women")?