The Great Deflation

The Wall Street Journal/Best of the Web ^ | 8/13/2011 | James Taranto

[Lakeshark]

You've heard it before, but it's worth repeating as a reminder of just how puffed-up Barack Obama got back in 2008:

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment--this was the time--when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.
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Yesterday the president gave a speech in Holland, Mich. Get a load of the headlines it generated:

• New York Times: "Obama Urges Voters to Scold Republicans"

• Associated Press: "Obama: Something Is Wrong With Country's Politics"

• Los Angeles Times: "Obama to GOP: Put Country Before Party"

• CNN: "President Obama: 'I'm Frustrated' "

• Washington Post: "Obama to America: You Must Pressure Congress to Pivot to Jobs"

• The Hill: "Obama Grasps for Anti-Washington Anger"

Like a leaky balloon, Barack Obama keeps getting smaller. "The president is declaring to the world that he is simply too weak to govern," Peter Wehner observes. "Not only that, he wants all of America to know that he's darn frustrated about it. You can even hear it in his voice." That last comment isn't Wehner's evaluation but a paraphrase of the president's own words: "Maybe you hear it in my voice--that's why I'm frustrated. Because you deserve better."

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Taranto's closing line is the best!

[Obama said] "...You deserve better than you've been getting out of Washington over the last 2½ months--for that matter, for the last 2½ years."

For the last 2½ years. Is that not as explicit an acknowledgment of failure as has ever been heard from a sitting president? A nice equivoque [ie, pun] comes from another headline, in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Dreaded Carp: Can They Be Stopped?" Yes, they can--but alas, probably not until November 2012.

LOL -- The "Dreaded Carp"!

[ripley]

“An incompetent thin-skinned whine who hates America.”

Elected by incompetent, thin-skinned, whining individuals who hate America.

IMHO

[RipSawyer]

“Pomposity self-importance and arrogance are hallmarks of the Leftist.”
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True but why only list their best qualities?