I'm sure anyone elected to the nation's highest office in recent decades has had a conversation with advisers who counsel him to not be distracted by all of the criticism an Administration attracts. "Don't let 'em make you take your eye off the ball," they say (or some other similar metaphor).
But today, right now, there needs to be someone in the Obama inner circle who is printing out copies of columns like
the one by Frank Rich the other day that scorched itself across the Internet, asking if we (the Americans) are being punked by Obama. And
today's column by Paul Krugman that includes this remarkable sentence:
It's hard to avoid the sense that Mr. Obama has wasted months trying to appease people who can't be appeased, and who take every concession as a sign that he
can be rolled."
Ouch. Tough love, Mr. President, tough love. Think of Charlie Brown & the football.
Well now... Rich & Krugman are prognosticators extraordinaire, aren't they?!
ReplyDeleteAren't there a couple of stories about folks like them?
What're they called?
"Chicken Little" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?
Public cynicism is well-deserved because of the last decade or so of abuse of power. To get back on the right track with ethics and honesty at governmental and corporate levels won't happen quickly.
In your entry "Scarlet Letter" you opined wishing that arrests weren't publicized.
In my opinion, Rich & Krugman's columns are a waste of ink.
Oh yeah... Charlie Brown never learned, did he? But America likes an under dog, right?
funny, democrats can have anything they want.
ReplyDeletehouse, senate, white house, it's all yours.
those that can't be appeased, democrats.
rough sailing under that big tent right now, eh?