Idiot Quote of the Day

Executive editor of the New York Times from 2003 until earlier this year, Bill Keller graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. degree in 1970 (but I haven't seen his grades).

He is now an op-ed columnist at the Times.

 

.... Inaugurations, of course, are ceremonial ephemera.

 

 

.... But is worth pondering how we got from that day to this partisan clamor, how we lost that sense of common cause, and how it became a consensus of the commentariat that Barack Obama is in serious danger of being a one-term president.

The decline in Obama’s political fortunes, the Great Disappointment, can be attributed to four main factors: the intractable legacy bequeathed by George W. Bush; Republican resistance amounting to sabotage; the unrealistic expectations and inevitable disenchantment of some of the president’s supporters; and, to be sure, the man himself....

 

 

About "the man himself," Keller says that Obama 

"can be faulted ... for not understanding . . .

that governing these days is a permanent campaign."

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Just what you'd expect: asinine writing from an ass. That bit about the "intractable legacy bequeathed by GWB" being one of the factors in our disappointment with Obama is laughable. OF COURSE he inherited intractable problems. Every president does. But every president doesn't make the intractable problems exponentially MORE intractable. And the bit about the "unrealistic expectations" of Obama's supporters is downright stupid. OF COURSE they have unrealistic expectations. That's because Obama promised them he would stop the rise of the oceans. Is it any wonder they're feeling a little let down now that their demiurge has failed to deliver the goods? Warning to all parents with kids in writing classes at Pomona College: Get them out -- before they turn into little Bill Kellers!