Michael Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Daily News, has a devastating column today on President Obama. Some Quotes:
Writing about his "campaign stops" for his health care proposals
It all seemed a campaign ritual, dulled by time and beleaguered by circumstance, prompting a flashback in my head to the Paul Simon song about Joe DiMaggio.
Where have you gone, Barack Obama? Where is the sunny-side-up young man who promised to inspire and unite an unhappy nation?
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Obama fatigue occasionally surfaced during the campaign, but this is different. He's the President, and if the country tunes him out, there is no Plan B. He's the rock star-turned-salesman, and everything in his administration depends on his stage act.
That the novelty is wearing thin is obvious. The danger is that the health care fiasco turns him into an unpopular and ineffective President.
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With stubborn wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an economy still bleeding, you'd think a new President would have challenges enough. Yet Obama has plunged into the health care mess as though it is a battle of absolute necessity.
It isn't. It is his choice. And it is a mistake.
If he's the man we thought he was, he'll now choose to make peace, before the country concludes he's the mistake
(To read the entire column click on the title for a link)
