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Barack
Obama's recent political difficulties have proved shattering to many of
his erstwhile enthusiasts. One of them is Jacob Weisberg, editor of
Slate.com, who in a column last week declared himself fed up—with
America.
The lesson of the debt-ceiling deal, Mr. Weisberg sobbed, is that
"there is no point trying to explain complex matters to the American
people. The president has tried reasonableness and he has failed." A
pithier expression of this lament was the headline of an online column
by liberal Republican Charles Fried: "Obama Is Too Good for Us."
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Weisberg
is, as are all Liberals without exception, arrogant,
condescending,
and as a consequence of being cloistered from alternative
viewpoints
by choice, spectacularly ignorant—
if not stupid— about anything more
rigerous than choosing which color lapel ribbon to wear each day. Only
more so.
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Mr.
Weisberg thought he should have been, given the all-around awesomeness
of the junior senator from Illinois. If Mr. Obama lost to John McCain,
Mr. Weisberg concluded, it could mean only one thing: America was
irredeemably racist.
You heard that a lot in those days ... Just ask Drew Westen, who
noted in a New York Times op-ed that Mr. Obama "had accomplished very
little before he ran for president," that he "had a singularly
unremarkable" academic career, "publishing nothing . . .
other than an autobiography," and that as a state senator he "voted
'present' . . . 130 times."
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Westen, a Democratic tactician, was spared the
charge of racism only because he waited until this past Sunday to write
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