The Democratic Establishment is very worried
Peggy Noonan says that the Democratic establishment is finally becoming alarmed at the strange priorities and ineptitude of the Obama administration:
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.”
She scored “the Chicago crowd,” which she characterized as “a distressingly insular and small-minded West Wing team.” The White House, Ms. Drew says, needs adult supervision — “an older, wiser head, someone with a bit more detachment.”…
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…
The Obama bowing pictures are becoming iconic…because they express a growing political perception, and that is that there is something amateurish about this presidency, something too ad hoc and highly personalized about it, something…incompetent…You can get tagged, typed and pegged your first year. Gerald Ford did, and Ronald Reagan too, more happily. The first year is when indelible impressions are made and iconic photos emerge.
This fellow Obama does not seem to be in touch with what might be called the Americaness of America. The wiser heads in the Democratic Party are correct to be alarmed. We wish they would have awakened sooner.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:48 am
It’s not amateurism; he’s a communist. No mystery at all, Peg.
November 29th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Some of us who saw this coming before 0bama was elected are not at all surprised.
Warnings that were raised that 0bama lacked the political experience and business background as well as zero foriegn policy experience were totally ignored during the election.
Dems were in such an uproar over Sarah Palins percieved lack of these same skills and she was only up for the second spot on the ticket,they gave 0bama a total pass on any and all vetting.
In the future,should our nation survive four years of gross incompetence from the 0bama administration,hopefuly voters will elect the most qualified candidate rather than the one with a nice smile who sends a tingle up their legs.
My only “Hope” at this point is that 0bama fails to destroy in four years what took 234 to build
November 29th, 2009 at 11:33 am
President Pushover
November 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
After watching people being called racist for warning about these very things, it is still not gratifying to see those predictions coming true. Obama is a disaster. Not only is this president inexperienced, but he only cares about himself.
American voters, what have we done? Socialists around the world may love Obama, but they still hate America. If you want to fix that you will have to exile many millions of Americans. Then the world will “love” us. Can’t you see that it is jealousy that really motivates them?
Wake up America. Dont hate our allies who hate us. Pity them and be proud of your American heritage. Dont bow to foreign kings and emperors. The founding fathers must be turning in their graves.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
“It’s as plain as the nose on your face”
“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…”
“The writing is on the wall”
…cliche, cliche, cliche!
The people are stubborn and will refuse to admit they were wrong. That, or they simply do not care if socialism changes our way of life.
…or they don’t understand the difference.
Sickening!
November 29th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Some people don’t care about what’s happening.
More people don’t understand what’s happening.
Most people don’t know that anything is happening.
Damn shame! This was such a great country. Obama, with help from a few friends, is ruining it.