Victor Davis Hanson is seeing signs of a complete meltdown coming for Barack Obama. This is very harsh:
First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of tax dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardson—with the relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does Richardson/Daschle go, but not Geithner?).
Second, was the “stimulus” (the euphemism for “borrow/print money”) that was simply a way to go into debt for a generation to shower Democratic constituencies with cash.
Then third, there were the inflated lectures on historic foreign policy to be made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own country and his predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to a censored Saudi-run press organ (e.g., Bush is dictatorial, the Saudi king is courageous; Obama can mend bridges that America broke to aggrieved Muslims—apparently Tehran hostages, Rushdie, serial attacks in the 1990s, 9/11, Madrid, London never apparently occurred; and neither did feeding Somalis, saving Kuwait, protesting Chechnya, Bosnia/Kosovo, billions to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinians, help in two Afghan wars, and on and on).
There is much more, please read the whole thing. I dunno if Obama will melt down, implode or just peter out like Carter did – only faster. But I suspect Obama is in real trouble. His arrogance is starting to wear on people. Soon, even the media will get tired of trying to carry water for him.
Obama may not be imploding, but he has yet to demonstrate any real leadership skills, first letting the Democrat leadership in the house and Senate walk all over him, then failing miserably at building a bi-partisan consensus, and then by letting his arrogance get in the way of his judgment when it came to appointments such as Geithner, Daschle, and Richardson. Obama is not in a free fall by any means, but he needs to show leadership, which he hasn’t to date.
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The Obamessiah was touted as a brilliant leader for the future of the American people. Now he’s in office and we’re finding out he’s barely capable of leading someone to the rest room. The liberals just can’t get it through their heads that great oratory doesn’t necessarily translate into great leadership. It’s going to cost us dearly.
Obama strikes me as the kind of giy who will one day say, “Here, I’m leaving, I don’t want to be president any more. This is no fun.”