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October 4, 2009

No Master Plan Behind Obama's Actions?

It's beginning to appear that this is indeed the case.

Jennifer Rubin writes:

[...] As the media and political observers pick over the remains of the failed Olympics-bid debacle, the debate has boiled down to this: Will it be a temporary embarrassment for the president or a long-term problem, an emblem of overreach and underachievement? There is more to this than simply predicting the toll it will take on Obama. Both the rebuff and the Obama team's stunned reaction have stripped the veneer from the Obama mystique. Suddenly, the entire country realizes that that there is no "master plan" behind what Obama does. In fact, there may be no plan at all.

[...] Could it be that there is less to Obama and his team of geniuses than we were led to believe? Maybe Obama's domestic and foreign-policy agenda is all based on wishful thinking: a cost-neutral health-care plan will emerge from Congress, talks with Iran will produce results, sweet-talking the Russian bear will pan out, there is some magic pill to achieve victory in Afghanistan that has escaped the nation's leading counterinsurgency gurus, and private-sector jobs will return despite the anti-employer policies flowing from Washington.

Could it be that Obama is not, in fact, a sophisticated analyst and astute policy wonk but merely has led a charmed political life, benefiting from a series of inept opponents (think Alan Keyes, the snarling infighters in Hillaryland, and the McCain gang-that-couldn't-shoot-straight), a sycophantic media, and an electorate willing to give him every benefit of the doubt? It might just be that neither he nor his advisers have thought through much of anything because they convinced themselves that they had the secret weapon, the gravity-defying political colossus. Obama could get away with doing seemingly inexplicable things (e.g., picking a fight with Israel over the nonstarter settlement freeze, backing the lunatic Manuel Zelaya, allowing the left wing in Congress to write his agenda) because this charismatic leader would inevitably defy the odds (not to mention public opinion, geopolitical realities, and common sense) and get results that mere mortal politicians could not.

As Jennifer goes on to note, it could very well be that the IOU rebuff may turn out to be Obama's man-behind-the-curtain moment, straight out of the Wizard of Oz, and that Barack Obama's 'hopey changey' routine has been little more than a lof of cheesy special effects that the American people are finally figuring out as all along having been just an act.

Put another way, the man who wants to be emperor, has no clothes. There's no real "there" there.

Posted by Richard at October 4, 2009 6:47 AM

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