As is often the case, Peggy Noonan nails it in this weekend's Wall Street Journal. Here's part of what she has to say:
"President Obama's problem now isn't what Wisconsin did, it's how he
looks each day—careening around, always in flight, a superfluous figure.
No one even looks to him for leadership now. He doesn't go to
Wisconsin, where the fight is. He goes to Sarah Jessica Parker's place,
where the money is.
'There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration. . . .
"Any president will, in a presidential election year, be political. But
there is a startling sense with Mr. Obama that that's all he is now,
that he and his people are all politics, all the time, undeviatingly, on
every issue. He isn't even trying to lead, he's just trying to win."
Click here to read the full column.
1 comment:
I agree with your overall point that President Obama hasn't displayed the leadership that he should have, that he needed to display.
But as for the money point that Peggy Noonan brings up, it would be a necessity for Obama even if the economy were better, thanks to Citizens United. Romney is going to have hundreds of millions of dollars on his side from the likes of American Crossroads, the Koch Brothers, etc. who were enabled by Citizens United. President Obama is within his rights to try to close that gap.
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