Peggy Noonan has another funny, head-spinningly-whacked, and
completely oblivious column for us today, on "
How Far Obama Has Fallen":
Why did the president make such mistakes? Why did he make decisions that seemed so unknowing, and not only in retrospect?
Because he had so much confidence, he thought whatever he did would work. He thought he had "a gift," as he is said to have told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He thought he had a special ability to sway the American people, or so he suggested to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
But whenever he went over the heads of the media and Congress and went to the people, in prime-time addresses, it didn't really work. He did not have a magical ability to sway. And—oddly—he didn't seem to notice.
It is one thing to think you're Lebron. It's another thing to keep missing the basket and losing games and still think you're Lebron.
And that really was the problem: He had the confidence without the full capability. And he gathered around him friends and associates who adored him, who were themselves talented but maybe not quite big enough for the game they were in. They understood the Democratic Party, its facts and assumptions. But they weren't America-sized. They didn't get the country so well.
It is a mystery why the president didn't second-guess himself more, doubt himself. Instead he kept going forward as if it were working.
Some "mystery". I've got a picture of the reason right here:
Except for the line "he gathered around him friends and associates who adored him, who were themselves talented but maybe not quite big enough for the game they were in," Peggy Noonan offers not a single acknowledgement
she had anything to do with what's happened. Nope - it's all
this Peggy's fault:
Michelle Malkin labeled Joseph "
Peggy The Moocher" - showing a nicely-honed
lack of civility that pissed no one off, BTW - which raises the question:
Why has Obama "fallen" but the nation's Peggy Noonan's - whose endorsement helped put Obama over the top - can carry on as though they're still credible? As though they can "keep missing the basket and losing games and still think you're Lebron"? Why do they pay no penalty?
This is going on all around us, still, and will continue until we're doomed by their decisions - and finally,
pushed by reason, compelled to kick them out - because it'll then be obvious they won't/don't/can't adMitt when they're wrong and just leave the stage. Instead, we're stuck listening to more of their insane rattling, except now it's going from
one sap's assessment of
the crease in someone's pant leg to another's "
less than inspiring endorsement for a less than inspiring man."
Which is one way to spin him, I guess,…
"I boast about having warned in 2002 and 2003 that Iraq would be a violent mess after we invaded. But I tend to make excuses for my own incorrect forecast in early 2007 that the troop 'surge' would fail."
