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While I no longer produce adequate insulin to fully appreciate Peggy Noonan's gifted writing style (The disaster in the Gulf may well spell the political end of the
president and his administration, and that is no cause for joy), there's good nutritional eats if I remove some of the meringue.
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- The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he
is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his
countrymen.
- ... he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with
the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and
C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They're in one reality, he's in
another.
- In his news conference Thursday, President Obama made his
position no better. He attempted to act out passionate engagement
through the use of heightened language—"catastrophe," etc.—but
repeatedly took refuge in factual minutiae. His staff probably thought
this demonstrated his command of even the most obscure facts. Instead
it made him seem like someone who won't see the big picture. The
unspoken mantra in his head must have been, "I will not be defensive, I
will not give them a resentful soundbite."
- ... liberals and progressives ... thought Katrina was the result
only of George W. Bush's incompetence and conservatives' failure to
"believe in government." But Mr. Obama was supposed to be competent.
- I wonder if the president knows what a disaster this is not only for him
but for his political assumptions. ... "Trust us here in Washington, we will prove worthy of your trust." [Full]
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