Shredding the Chicago mobster
In the Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer gives Obama a good kicking.
Now he is immersed in a deliberative exercise about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. As is the lot of politicians, he will be damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. What the dilemma illustrates is that governing is not so easy as it might once have seemed; that you cannot please all of the people all of the time, so there is little point trying; and that the expertise of the Obama campaign in managing image is useless when managing a country. Tony Blair, had they asked, could have told him that.
Heffer wrote this before Obama got a further kicking from the victories of McDonnell in Virginia and Christie in New Jersey, and Hoffman in New York was close. Nervous Democrats, get more nervous. The goal in 2010 is to send Harry Reid and his goons back home, and then 2012. Send Obama back to his Chicago mob friends.