Finally, The Cognoscenti Ask: What Could We Be Thinking?

IBD Editorials ^ | September 30, 2011 | The great MARK STEYN

[Kaslin]

'The way I think about it," Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, "is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft."

He has a point. This is a great, great country that got so soft that 53% of electors voted for a ludicrously unqualified chief executive who would be regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation.

One should not begrudge a man who seizes his opportunity. But one should certainly hold in contempt those who allow him to seize it on the basis of such flaccid generalities as "hope" and "change": That's more than "a little" soft.

"He's probably the smartest guy ever to become president," declared presidential historian Michael Beschloss the day after the 2008 election. But you don't have to be that smart to put one over on all the smart guys.

"I'm a sap, a specific kind of sap. I'm an Obama Sap," admits David Brooks, the softest touch at the New York Times. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, now says of the president: "He wasn't ready, it turns out, really."

If you're a tenured columnist at the Times, you can just about afford the consequences of your sappiness. But among the hundreds of thousands of your readers who didn't know you were a sap until you told them three years later, soft choices have hard consequences.

If you're one of Obama's core constituencies, those who looked so photogenic at all the hopeychangey rallies, things are really hard: "Young Becoming 'Lost Generation' Amid Recession" (CBS News). Tough luck, rubes. You got a bumper sticker; he got to make things worse.

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We Cain Do Better

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "What do you mean?"
I have listened to the guy (Brooks) for a long time, watched him recently make a fool of himself during a conference on debt reduction, about two months back, where he talked really dumb things, and was rebutted by a number of people. He comes across like he is some kind of half conservative. He like most in that world can make some sense on some things, but the more I watch him on say the PBS News Hour the more I see he can flip flop back and forth on things some of us would consider a conservative view verse a liberal view, or tries to stay neutral.
Perhaps my original comment was a bit to strong, but I wrote it and cannot take the print back from the page.

[bitt]

We love your spirit. :)

[Marine_Uncle]

I could have used a bit less glamor in the statement however. Sometimes I forget this site is viewed by those capable of using more discrete language. But thanks for the support. :)

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