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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A failed presidency

What went wrong for the Obama presidency?

Fouad Ajami writing in The Wall Street Journal:
It is in the nature of charisma that it rises out of thin air, out of need and distress, and then dissipates when the magic fails. The country has had its fill with a scapegoating that knows no end from a president who had vowed to break with recriminations and partisanship. The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it. Slowly, the nation has recovered its poise. There is a widespread sense of unstated embarrassment that a political majority, if only for a moment, fell for the promise of an untested redeemer — a belief alien to the temperament of this so practical and sober a nation.
Read the full op-ed at the newspaper's website.

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