Obama plans to play golf today...
Obamas Fly 'His & Her' Jets to Lux Vacay...
Air Force One, two chopper convoys, motorcade...
Buchanan: The View From The Vineyard...
(read the rest of Buchanan)As he and his daughters bicycle around the summer playground of the Northeastern elite, Martha's Vineyard, President Obama is steadily bleeding away both the support of the nation and that of his most loyal constituency.
Noonan: The President's Island Retreat
How could he not be depressed? He has made big mistakes since the beginning of his presidency and has been pounded since the beginning of his presidency. He's got to be full of doubts at this point about what to do. His baseline political assumptions have proved incorrect, his calculations have turned out to be erroneous, his big decisions have turned to dust. He thought they'd love him for health care, that it was a down payment on greatness. But the left sees it as a sellout, the center as a vaguely threatening mess, the right as a rallying cry. He thought the stimulus would turn the economy around. It didn't. He thought there would be a natural bounce-back a year ago, with "Recovery Summer." There wasn't. He thought a toe-to-toe, eyeball-to-eyeball struggle over the debt ceiling would enhance his reputation. The public would see through to the dark heart of Republican hackery and come to recognize the higher wisdom of his approach. That didn't happen either.
Nothing worked! And nothing's going to work. He's the smartest guy in the room, but he's got the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to—well, unsatisfying outcomes.
He's the smartest guy in the room? So the problems and setbacks are all bad luck? He has doubts, Peggy? He certainly hasn't shown any. He does have the top job in the Federal Government, a fleet of jets, a fleet of cars, a fleet of (new) buses, free housing, a staff of thousands, a great income and a lifetime pension. He may have screwed the country up for the rest of us, but he's set for life. He's got his, meanwhile the rest of the country is lined up looking for work.
More DRUDGE: Thousands line up for jobs.
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