MICHAEL GOODWIN, writing on Sunday for the N.Y. Post
Granted – the NY Post is NOT MSM…. But you gotta love reading this in print….
The reports are not good, disturbing even…President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist…
Everybody else, including members of his Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.
If the reports are accurate, and I believe they are, they paint a picture of an isolated man trapped in a collapsing presidency.
Obama conceded in one television interview recently that Americans are not “better off than they were four years ago” and said in another that the nation had “gotten a little soft.” Both smacked of a man who feels discouraged and alienated and sparked comparisons to Jimmy Carter, never a good sign.
Blaming the country is political heresy, of course, yet Obama is running out of scapegoats. His allies rarely make affirmative arguments on his behalf anymore, limiting themselves to making excuses for his failure. He and they attack Republicans, George W. Bush, European leaders and Chinese currency manipulation -- and that was just last week.
The blame game isn’t much of a defense for Solyndra and “Fast and Furious,” the emerging twin scandals that paint a picture of incompetence at best.
Obama himself is spending his public time pushing a $450 billion “jobs” bill -- really another stimulus in disguise -- that even Senate Democrats won’t support. He grimly flogged it repeatedly at his Thursday press conference, even though snowballs in hell have a better chance of survival.
Harvey Golub, former chairman of American Express, called the “jobs” bill an incoherent mess. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he said that among other flaws, the bill includes an unheard of retroactive tax hike on the holders of municipal bonds…“Many of us have suspected that economic illiterates were setting the economic policy of this administration,” Golub wrote, adding that the bill “reveals a depth of cluelessness that boggles the mind.”
What a coincidence that there were three articles this weekend on Obama’s ‘personal isolationism.’ Maybe the MSM is actually getting this right.
THE WASHINGTON POST: ‘OBAMA THE LONER’
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION: ‘SPIN METER: Obama disconnects rhetoric, reality’
THE N.Y. POST: ‘Aimless Obama walks alone’
Funny thing is, we've know this for a few years now that he is unable, unwilling, unqualified (meaning experience wise) to really hold this office.
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