And the Scales Fell From Her Eyes
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And the Scales Fell From Her Eyes
I don't know whether to laugh or cry or say "I told you so". Peggy Noonan, former speech writer for Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush, writes in the WSJ about the the insignificance of Obama on the world stage, how the European leaders at the UN this week seem to have lost their man crush over Obama.
http://online.wsj.com/artic/SB10001424052702303342104579099623833385780.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122539802263585317.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419210832542317.html
Now this is the same Peggy Noonan who famously eviscerated Sarah Palin in the runup to the 2008 election in a WSJ Op EdThe second takeaway of the week has to do with a continued decline in admiration for the American president. Barack Obama's reputation among his fellow international players has deflated, his stature almost collapsed. In diplomatic circles, attitudes toward his leadership have been declining for some time, but this week you could hear the disappointment, and something more dangerous: the sense that he is no longer, perhaps, all that relevant. Part of this is due, obviously, to his handling of the Syria crisis. If you draw a line and it is crossed and then you dodge, deflect, disappear and call it diplomacy, the world will notice, and not think better of you. Some of it is connected to the historical moment America is in.
But some of it, surely, is just five years of Mr. Obama. World leaders do not understand what his higher strategic aims are, have doubts about his seriousness and judgment, and read him as unsure and covering up his unsureness with ringing words.
. and then endorsed the Empty Suit.But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office
Gawd, save us from the chattering classes and the talking heads.He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice.
http://online.wsj.com/artic/SB10001424052702303342104579099623833385780.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122539802263585317.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419210832542317.html
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