Posted on 11/30/2009 1:48:27 PM PST by caddystacks
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 or even classiness they had thought."
Just as stinging as Elizabeth Drew on domestic matters was Leslie Gelb on Mr. Obama and foreign policy in the Daily Beast. Mr. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and fully plugged into the Democratic foreign-policy establishment, wrote this week that the president's Asia trip suggested "a disturbing amateurishness in managing America's power." The president's Afghanistan review has been "inexcusably clumsy," Mideast negotiations have been "fumbling." So unsuccessful was the trip that Mr. Gelb suggested Mr. Obama take responsibility for it "as President Kennedy did after the Bay of Pigs."
He added that rather than bowing to emperors—Mr. Obama "seems to do this stuff spontaneously and inexplicably"—he should begin to bow to "the voices of experience" in Washington.
When longtime political observers start calling for wise men, a president is in trouble.
also raises a distressing question: Who are the wise men and women now?
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
If he’s lost Chrissey Matthews, he’s lost the country.........................(anybody recognize that?)............
The left - always in error, never in doubt.
Spit’n Chrissy has figured out that tingling feeling was actually Obamah pissing up his leg!
So it begins...Elizabeth Drew is in the heart of the east coast elite...back in the seventies she wrote articles for the NEW YORKER, and became their Watergate expert.
Drew was a true believer...and if Barry has lost her, it’s a sign. The Gliterati have begun to notice that the clothes have no emperor...or whatever.
Obama has a few months to turn this around...if not, the Dems are toast next November...and guess who the leftwing establishment will blame?
Maybe David Gergen can help save his presidency.
All the fools now think he is a bumbling fool who wants to save America. In reality, he is a very smart man who wants to destroy America.
I was at a gathering this weekend, and was talking to a fairly staunch Democrat. The guy told me he thought Obama was a one term president because of the economy. We both agreed: “It’s the economy, stupid”.
All the other gaffes of this immature baffoon would be overlooked, but the economy is something people can’t ignore, even if they want to ignore it.
The Obama administration is mishandling the economy, and if the Republicans could just somehow find a candidate, Obama will be in trouble, (I’m shocked I’m typing that).
How about Vernon Jordan?
I’m At the End of My Hope©
Who cares what democrats think. If they start to hate him, fine and dandy. But REAL patriots saw this man for what he is long ago. A wimpy commie puppet.
“Obama has a few months to turn this around...if not, the Dems are toast next November...and guess who the leftwing establishment will blame?”
Bush?! :)
They blame him for everything else.
I quit reading Noonan some time ago. She was openly for The One and tried to bash anyone who suggested that Barry would be the flippin socialist that he is. She voted for the loon, unfortunately, it is we in fly over country ( ie anywhere but DC) that pay the price
With apologies to Walter Cronkite and Lyndon Baines Johnson
So many media types thought they were electing Josiah Bartlett from “the West Wing” as President, and they got Homer J. Simpson, instead.
You just KNOW the Hillary crowd is going to come unglued on them, at some point.
Whatsa matter Peggy? Thought you were on the band wagon. Are your opinions based on anything other than going with the pack? Why don't ya just come out and say that you thought he was wonderfulness personified, that you didn't look at his past, and you've screwed up?
You were on the band wagon.
"I was...wwwrrrrr....wwwwrrr....WRONG!"
I made a mmmmm...mmmmmisss....a MISTAKE!
I know, I know. It's hard to say.
As all the polls are now below 50% we may be approaching the tipping point where the liberal establishment and media throw him under the bus.
I wonder if this is Peggy’s way of admitting she was wrong?
He himself seems a fairly chilly customer; perhaps in turn he inspires chilly support. But presidents need that rock-bottom 20% who, no matter what's happening—war, unemployment—adore their guy, have complete faith in him, and insist that you love him, too.Let's not mince words, Peggy. It's race.
They're the hard 20 a president always keeps. Nixon kept them! Obama probably has a hard 20 too, but whatever is keeping them close, it doesn't seem to be love.
1968 - After the “Quagmire” episode. If we’ve lost Walter we’ve lost the war.
An obvious move that only a true fool would not see the necessity of at this point.
LoL! So even the old lib pundits are wrinkling up their noses and realizing that the dog doo they smell is in Obowmao’s shoe.
Bush's fault.
"Look! A 1927 Indian-head nickel!!!"
Well they have lost Katie! is that close enough to Walter?
The funny part is that now that he has bowed to a few leaders, he is he actually INSULTING the ones he doesnt bow to! And you can’t just say its because they are royalty. All the queen of England got was a slap on the back and an ipod! LOL
“But of course just because they say you’re stupid doesn’t mean you’re Lincoln.”
Great line.
He has his “wise men”: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and whole college faculties full of Marxist ideologues in Political Science, Keynesian Economics, Junk Science, etc. What he needs is some experienced, responsible, pragmatic people. I can't think of any old hands from either the Clinton or Carter administrations that would do anything more than make things worse. Maybe Abe Burrows .....
All the uninformed, judgment impaired 0bama voters should wake up every day knowing they voted to destroy their own children’s future.
>> So many media types thought they were electing Josiah Bartlett from “the West Wing” as President, and they got Homer J. Simpson, instead.
You just KNOW the Hillary crowd is going to come unglued on them, at some point. <<
I wish the PUMAs would wake the heck up and soon....
Right on. None so blind as those that would not see - even when we were screaming at the top of our lungs to look at this and that.
The suit may be empty but it sure is shiny.
The suit has a permanent bend in it.
Yes, but there were pre-set showtunes in the ipod! lol...
You’re right, Peggy Noonan is no better than any of the other Manhattan elitists.
Peggy, what’s your problem? You are the one who had the schoolgirl crush on 0bama. Couldn’t you see these types of problems with him then?
Shut the heck up, Ms. Noonan.
“All the fools now think he is a bumbling fool who wants to save America. In reality, he is a very smart man who wants to destroy America.”
Ditto’s This is the truest of statements...the Washington elite are mad because he has done to little to move left, not the anger we conservatives hate about his Marxist regime...if he is not smart enough, to hell with it he has many smart by hate leftist that could care less about his popularity if they get the power to expand their form of communism!
For us the distrust by both sides on left and right has allowed the independents, and fence sitters to move in our direction!!! they fear us getting our act together, and standing up with facts, and the truth about Conservative Policies, and why it is a Positive force for good, and will bring the best to all peoples, the Rich, are the leftist elities, not the conservatives!!! The dims are the greedy bastards! they know it! the Wallstreet of today are the thieves of wealth by the very policies they lobbied for with the dims! The good guys are just now seeing that to be silent is to give succor to the enemy of Freedom!
wow, I am so happy to see the Warmers, and Changers get their ass handed to them1 we must never be called the silent majority again! Viva las Honduras! Chavez take your puppy Obama, with you to hell
I love it!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, well, until they start saying that George W. Bush was better at this than Obama, I won’t believe they’ve learned anything.
What happened to that Harvard sophistication the Vichy Republicans
were all so impressed by last year? Did it disappear with his birth certificate,
college thesis, and transcripts?
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