The Shrinking Presidency
By
Monty Pelerin, posted November 29th, 2009 http://www.economicnoise.com/2009/11/29/the-shrinking-presidency/
T
hings are not going well when material like the following from Peggy Noonan appears: ”
”a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his
presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man.’ They
once held ‘an unromantically high opinion of Obama,’ and were key to
his rise, but now they are concluding that the president isn’t ‘the
person of integrity and even classiness they had thought.’ ” The
sentiment becomes especially significant when the quotes inside the
quote are from “… journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often
sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures …”
Noonan concludes: “The Obama bowing pictures are becoming
iconic not for those reasons, however, but because they express a
growing political perception, and that is that there is something
amateurish about this presidency, something too ad hoc and highly
personalized about it, something . . . incompetent, at least in its
first year.”
When SNL turns rather viciously against someone, it is not good press.