Is Obama Really That Bad?

Liberal partisans who refuse to acknowledge that Obama is off to a very ... very bad start are simply ignoring the facts. Not everyone is. When the candidate of Hope and Change gets scolded by the New York Times for bad judgment, hubris, or corrupted inside the beltway thinking, as happened over Daschle - sorry, but that's sign of a real problem very early on.

And in a straight-forward though still blistering critique by Peter Robinson, there's this:

The glee among Republicans right now is only to be expected. The long faces among Obama's startled supporters in Washington are a lot more telling.

And if the current testing of Obama by Russia, North Korea, Iran and others reveals weaknesses, a mostly domestically fixated Obama's worldview is going to be expanded a whole lot in a big hurry, potentially crowding out his domestic agenda - as happened to Bush.

Other than acknowledging that it's early and that there have been some significant and unnecessary early mistakes, there isn't much else to do right now but wait.

Some staff and adviser adjustments coupled with an Obama settling into an office for which he was ill-prepared might make a big difference.

Let's hope it does.

If not, we're in for a very long four years. 

 

Comments

[wolfwalker]

Some staff and adviser adjustments coupled with an Obama settling into an office for which he was ill-prepared might make a big difference.

Let's hope it does.

If not, we're in for a very long four years.

Disagree.

If this socialist bastard does learn how to be an effective president, then we're in for a very long four years. If he doesn't, then the time will fly by as I enjoy watching him fail in ever more spectacular ways.

[mark l.]

2003 tax cuts, 48 gop, 2 dems, and 1 cheney passed it, because the gop believed in it.

this puts this latest bill under two spheres:

the leadership is lacking, or the dems don't feel the commitment to it.
It looks like a combo of the two.

If obama is stumbling despite having the numbers, what is he going to do with even less popular agendas come before the senate?

healthcare has zero chance, as the gop has learned that obama flinches to the polls and media.

does anyone believe healthcare is going to evoke the emergent need to act?

[mark l.]

this bill will arguably be the most importnat piec of legistlation that the WH could pass in obama's first term...

step one: outsource it to the house dems, as his economic advising team wasn't put in place til yesterday, over 100 days after he knew he was going to be charged with a decision of this magnitutde.

step two:refuse to admit that it fails, and declare that there is no need to change it, despite the fact that it is still being hammered out in front of his face.

step three: schedule victory speech before even determining that there will be a victory.
Obama scheduled a 'mission accomplished' speech for monday nite anticipating the bill's passage.

[Mark Turner]

Obama is starting to make mistakes similar to what Bill Clinton did in his first 2 years under a Democrat-controlled congress....pander to the left, get some token GOP support while arrogantly asserting one's own agenda, watch the voter backlash, then act surprised.

[Angela L]

Obama spent too much time studying FDR and Lincoln and not enough time studying Clinton!

[Todd]

When Obama's approval ratings consistently hits 22% like George W. Bush's, I'll address the question about if Obama really is that bad.