It’s not been an error-free start for the new President has it? But, really, even for the internet age, some of the reaction to the stumbles is laughably over the top. So much so, of course, that Obama can draw some comfort from that. Here, for instance, is Victor Davis Hanson writing at National Review:
Right! There’s so much wrong with this that there’s little point unpacking it. One might merely join the Economist in noting that Mr Hanson has been confidenty predicting Mr Obama’s downfall for more than a year. As recently as last March he told us that Mr Obama was “on his way to a McGovern candidacy.”We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking.
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