From
today's commentary by Richard Cohen in the
Washington Post:
...More and more Obama is being likened to Lyndon Johnson, with Afghanistan becoming his Vietnam. Maybe. But the better analogy is to Jimmy Carter, particularly the president analyzed by James Fallows in a 1979 Atlantic magazine article, "The Passionless Presidency." "The central idea of the Carter administration is Jimmy Carter himself," Fallows wrote. And what is the central idea of the Obama presidency? It is change. And what is that? It is Obama himself.
Unlike Carter, Obama brims with energy and charm. His brilliance is not brittle but supple. Yet, another teachable moment is upon him and he seems lost. The country needs health-care reform and success in Afghanistan, and both efforts are going in the wrong direction. The message needs to be fixed, and so, with some tough introspection, does the man.
What Cohen fails to recognize, of course, is that BHO cannot be "fixed." In fact, earlier in his essay, Cohen states as follows:
This is because of an insufficiency I have noted previously -- his distinct coolness, an above-the-fray mien that does not communicate empathy.
The Democratic Party, or at least some in the Party, are starting to recognize that BHO is a liability.
I don't even think it's fair to compare Obama to Carter. While Carter never met a tyrant or a terrorist he didn't like, he wasn't obviously out to destroy America like Obama. With Carter it was just a combination of typical liberal policies (which always fail in practice) combined with bad timing. If the time is right a Democrat can stay afloat through sheer luck and charm like Clinton, but in bad times they will necessarily crash and burn. Obama is the perfect storm of atrocious policies, timing which could not be worse, and an rabid hatred of America and her allies.
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