This article says it all---the most telling is the final paragraph. There are some zingers for Zero along the way too. Where this guy's opinion in October and November of 2008 when it mattered? Oh, that's right, he was smitten like the rest of the media.
A4Driver
Subject: Zuckerman Editorial from US News & World Report
*Mortimer Zuckerman on President Obama
**Date: Monday, March 1, 2010*
A most interesting editorial, not from Fox News or Rush
Limbaugh, but from Mortimer Zuckerman of U. S. News. The
tide is turning.
Mortimer Zuckerman on President Obama:
THE LIBERAL WRITTEN MEDIA IS BEGINNING TO FLIP ON OBAMA.
FROM THEIR LIPS AND PENS TO GOD'S EARS!
Mortimer Zuckerman is the Editor in Chief of the U S News
and World Report and was a supporter of Barack Obama during
his run for the Presidency. This is a staggering appraisal
of the President's first year in office- coming from someone
who supported President Obama.
_In a January 20, 2010 editorial, the Editor in Chief of
U.S. News & World Report, Mortimer Zuckerman, had this to say:
_
Obama's ability to connect with voters is what launched him.
But what has surprised me is how he has failed to connect
with the voters since he's been in office.
He's had so much overexposure. You have to be selective.
He was doing five Sunday shows. How many press
conferences? And now people stop listening to him. He's
lost his audience.
He has not rallied public opinion. He has plunged in the
polls more than any other public figure since we've been
using polls. He's done everything wrong. Well, not
everything, but
the major things. I don't consider it a triumph. I consider
it a disaster!? And that's what his friends are saying about
him.
As the boy president occupied the White House on January 20,
2009 it was predictable that his presidency would last a
year, at most, because the things he promised and the things
he stood for were so uniquely un-American. Looking back
over his year in office, any reasonably precocious fourth
grader could make a cogent argument in opposition to nearly
everything he's done. In fact, his policies have been so
extreme and so far outside the mainstream that he was
destined to achieve the most spectacular fall from grace of
any American president in history. It was easy to see him
serving out the final three years of his term as a virtual
exile in the White House, afraid to venture out among any
but the most rabid partisans.
Seeing his most ambitious initiative, healthcare reform, die
in the flames of the Massachusetts Massacre, Obama made a
hastily-planned "sortie" to Ohio for yet another
Bush-bashing, self-aggrandizing stump speech on job
creation. It was vintage Obama, full of left wing hyperbole
and planted questions from the Kool-Ade drinkers in the
hand-picked audiences, but there were just two things wrong
with it: 1) Almost everything he said was either wrong or an
outright lie, and 2) He is so overexposed that no one in the
television audience really wanted to see him.
Obama Kool-Ade drinkers in the media, and elsewhere, like to
describe Obama as a very bright man, a true intellectual
(compared to George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, of course).?
If that is the case, why has he demonstrated such a great
inability to learn from his failures? The strident words
and the in-your-face attitude of his Ohio speech were proof
that he has totally misread the meaning of the Scott Brown
victory in Massachusetts.
Whatever hopes and dreams he had for his time in the White
House, whatever grandiose plans he had for transforming the
United States from a constitutional republic with a free
market economy into a socialist dictatorship with a
centrally planned economy, were all lost on Tuesday, January
19, 2010, one day short of a full year in office. Yet, he
appears to have learned nothing from the experience.
Comedian George Gobel once asked, rhetorically, "Did you
ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you
were a pair of brown shoes?"? In the context of 21st century
American politics, and assuming that he has any capacity at
all for honest self-examination, Obama must be feeling today
very much like a pair of brown shoes at a black tie soiree.
When a politically naive and totally inexperienced young
black man, with a glib tongue and an exceptional ability to
read words convincingly from a teleprompter, announced that
he was ready to serve as President of the United States,
liberals and Democrats saw it as a perfect opportunity to
expiate whatever white guilt they may have felt, which was
apparently considerable among those on the political left.
It didn't seem to bother them that, as one pundit has
remarked, every time he walks into a room he is the least
experienced and the least qualified man in the room.?
Nevertheless, his friends in the worldwide socialist
movement and the international banking community figured out
how to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal
campaign funds into the country, the black community rallied
to his banner, and American liberals and the mainstream
media jumped on board the bandwagon. Together, they made it
happen for him. But now, just one year later, Obama appears
destined to become the unhappiest man in American politics,
unhappier than even former Senator John Edwards, who runs a
close second, and former president Bill Clinton.
Clinton will be the third unhappiest man because, after
capturing the big prize, he frittered away whatever chance
he had of ever being compared favorably with Franklin D.
Roosevelt as one of the 20th century's greatest Democratic
presidents. Not only was he a politician of unusual skill
and insight, he was widely known as a policy wonk, among
policy wonks, and he had the drive and the personal charm to
be loved and respected around the world.
.
Unfortunately, he was never able to put the public trust at
the top of his priority list. Instead, he surrounded
himself with a large cadre of trusted enablers who allowed
him to conduct himself as if he were, not the President of
the United States, but the class stud on an extended spring
break in Acapulco.
Now that he's been out of office for nearly a decade and
he's married to the current Secretary of State, he spends
his days trying to find something useful to do without
calling an undue amount of attention to himself. Having
lied so shamelessly to the American people, having perjured
himself in a court of law, having turned the Oval Office
into a sexual playpen, and having suffered the humiliation
of impeachment, he's smart enough to know that he has little
reputation left to protect. So in order to protect whatever
legacy remains, he walks a tightrope every day, and he has
many more years to walk it without falling off.
Former Senator John Edwards is destined to be the second
unhappiest man in American politics because he will be known
forever as the most thoroughly despised scumbag in the
political arena. A trial lawyer, Edwards amassed a $60
million fortune by winning large jury awards against
doctors, hospitals, and corporations. His specialty was
cases in which children were born with cerebral palsy, which
he blamed on doctors who had waited too long to perform
C-sections, a claim that doctors and medical researchers
have described as "junk science".? Then, like Obama, he
decided that his experience in the courtroom, his glib
tongue, and his one term in the U.S. Senate qualified him
to be President of the United States. He entered the 2004
Democratic presidential primaries, raising an incredible
amount of money for a newcomer to elective office, most of
it raised illegally by bundlers, in plaintiffs law firms
across the country. He was unsuccessful in his quest for the
Democratic nomination but was selected by his Senate
colleague, John Kerry, as his running mate.
Two years later, in 2006, Edwards met a young blonde film
producer, Rielle Hunter, and embarked on a love affair with
her. On February 27, 2008, Hunter gave birth to a daughter,
for whom Edwards has consistently denied paternity, until now.
Taking into account that all of this was happening while his
wife was waging a long battle with breast cancer, Edwards
now has the well-deserved reputation of being the sleaziest
of the sleazy. He is so universally despised that, if he is
on the lookout for a friend, he might as well resign himself
to getting a dog, or moving in with O.J. Simpson. Terry
Moran, host of ABC's This Week, put it all in perspective.
He said, "What's interesting to note is that Edwards'
latest admission (that he is the father of Hunter's child)
came while he was in Haiti. As if the people of that sad
place didn't have enough problems.? Clearly, the one thing
Clinton and Edwards share that places them near the top of
our list is their sexual peccadilloes, a shortcoming that
Obama does not appear to share with them, at least from what
we know so far.
What we do know about Obama is that, since his teen years,
he has been mentored by, gravitated toward, and surrounded
by the most dangerous sort of America-hating socialists,
communists, and Marxists, from Frank Marshall Davis and Saul
Alinsky to Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and
Bernadine Dohrn, to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, George Soros, and
countless radical left college professors.
What destines Obama for the top spot on the list of
unhappiest American politicians, aside from the failure of
his economic recovery program, the failure of his radical
cap-and-trade proposal, his failed attempt to give labor
bosses unprecedented power to intimidate blue collar
workers, and his ill-fated attempt at healthcare reforms, is
the fact that he carries on his shoulders the hopes and
aspirations of every black child in America. It is
unfortunate that, because he is so far outside the American
mainstream, and because he carries so much hatred in his
heart for the country he seeks to lead, his failures will be
viewed by generations of black children, not as the failure
of a black socialist attempting to bring down a
constitutional republic, but simply as the failure of a
black man.
A man can fail in the eyes of his countrymen and still be
dearly loved by those closest to him. But in Obama's case,
his wife and his two daughters will be there to suffer every
agonizing step of his fall along with him. And for the rest
of his life, each time he looks into their eyes, and into
the eyes of black people everywhere, he will see the
crushing disappointment that his ill-fated attempt at
national transformation has caused them.
He will be the country's unhappiest man, living the rest of
his life knowing that his daughters know that the whole
world sees him as a failure. He is simply the wrong man, in
the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in
history.
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