Barack Obama came into office aspiring to bridge the chasm between liberals and conservatives, red states and blue states, and behold, the gulf is gone. People in each camp heartily agree that as a president, he’s a disappointment and a flop. Both sides even compare him to Jimmy Carter.
Karl Rove, who was George W. Bush’s political adviser, sorrowfully concludes that Obama is “weak, dazed and over his head.” A New York Times editorial, appalled at the debt ceiling agreement, derides him for “a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists.”
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