Richard Cohen could be the poster boy for the leftist press in America. Richard Cohen hates conservatives and thinks they're mean, stupid and downright dangerous. Richard Cohen tries every way he can to drive people down the shining path of liberalism that he (and the others of the progressive elite) know is best for them. To that end, he engages in all of the normal methods used when liberals fail: omitting the facts, distorting the facts, excusing, changing the subject, appealing to "politically correct" authorities, and blaming others.The essay Cohen penned for the Washington Post shows every one of those methods in trying to defend Barack Obama's lousy performance as Chief Executive.
Cohen still loves, admires and praises Barack Obama. He remains a true believer in the Big O. And yet...Cohen's article still isn't going to be fun reading over at the White House. Why?
1) Because the admission that Obama is presiding over "The Incredible Shrinking Presidency" is even more dispiriting because it comes from a loyalist. 2) Because blaming George W. Bush and the "ignorant," "frightening" American people isn't going to make for a winning political strategy. But, worse news yet for the White House staff, is 3) Cohen's deciding to spread the blame for Obama's seeming ineptitude to his team.
Will this become a trend? I suspect so. For Obama's pals know something is radically wrong. Their man just isn't being loved and worshiped as he was. But since he himself cannot be blamed (blasphemous thought), somebody else has to be at fault. Cohen fingers the staff, the speechwriters and that numskull who put The O behind that "massive and capaciously empty desk."
Writes Cohen, "But what Obama can do -- what he must do -- is get some new people. His staff ill-serves him so that he presents a persona at odds with his performance." And later, "The president needs better speechwriters. The president needs a staff to tell him not to give an Oval Office address unless he has something worthy of the Oval Office to say. The president needs someone to look into the camera so that, when the light goes on and he says, 'Good evening,' he looks commander in chiefish: big. In other words, the president needs to fire some key people. Either that, or the way things are going, the American people are going to fire him."
What do you bet the ever-increasing ranks of the unemployed soon include a few with White House experience?
