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Heckuva Job, Barack
New York Times, by Ross Douthat

This was Barack Obamaâ€™s chance.

Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage thatâ€™s weighed his presidency down â€” the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha.

Here was a place to draw a clean line between himself and all the overzealous Obamaphiles, at home and abroad, who poured their post-Christian, post-Marxist yearnings into the vessel of his 2008 campaign.

Here was a chance to establish himself, definitively, as an American president â€” too self-confident to accept an unearned accolade, and too instinctively democratic to go along with European humbug.

He didnâ€™t take it. Instead, he took the Nobel Peace Prize.

Big mistake.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/opini ... ef=opinion

Author:	Moby Grape [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:	Heckuva Job, Barack
Quote: Heckuva Job, Barack New York Times, by Ross Douthat This was Barack Obamaâ€™s chance. Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage thatâ€™s weighed his presidency down â€” the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha. Here was a place to draw a clean line between himself and all the overzealous Obamaphiles, at home and abroad, who poured their post-Christian, post-Marxist yearnings into the vessel of his 2008 campaign. Here was a chance to establish himself, definitively, as an American president â€” too self-confident to accept an unearned accolade, and too instinctively democratic to go along with European humbug. He didnâ€™t take it. Instead, he took the Nobel Peace Prize. Big mistake. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/opini ... ef=opinion

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