Editor's notes: it is a toss up for the number one story of the year -- either the corruption at the Department of Justice or the sharp criticism from his most important supporters, men such a Mort Zuckerman, editor and chief of US News and World Report. We have the corruption story in this edition, a story that threatens to engulf the Administration in and of itself.
But this post is all about the critics of Mr. Obama. Read this and understand that Mort Zuckermann is as big a lib as you can find. Others are as important, but none more important within the liberal wing of our nation's politic.
The words of Mort Zuckermann: The reviews of Obama's performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America's role in the world. The global community was puzzled over the pictures of Obama bowing to some of the world's leaders and surprised by his gratuitous criticisms of and apologies for America's foreign policy under the previous administration of George W. Bush. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one's own tribe while in the lands of others. . . . . . . Les Gelb wrote of Obama, "He is so self-confident that he believes he can make decisions on the most complicated of issues after only hours of discussion." Strategic decisions go well beyond being smart, which Obama certainly is. . . . . . . . The end result is that a critical mass of influential people in world affairs who once held high hopes for the president have begun to wonder whether they misjudged the man. They are no longer dazzled by his rock star personality and there is a sense that there is something amateurish and even incompetent about how Obama is managing U.S. power. . . . . Read the story at US News & World Report - it gives a full review of all areas of governance with which Obama has voiced an opinion. The article is similar in content to any number of Midknight Review summary reviews of the Adolescent we have in the White House. All this was written on June 20th.
Read what Zuckermann had to say about Obama just 6 days ago: The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a poor supper. A year and a half ago Obama was walking on water. Today he is barely treading water. Then, his soaring rhetoric enraptured the nation. Today, his speeches cannot lift him past a 45 percent approval rating. . . . . The fundamental problem is starkly simple: jobs and the deepening fear among the public that the American dream is vanishing before their eyes. . . . . Read more here >>>
As you read these two articles, do not forget that Obama was heavily supported by Zuckermann.
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