The following is taken from an Op-ed entitled 'Witholder in Chief' on August 9 written by Maureen Dowd, a professed liberal:
"As America reels from the latest humiliating blows on the economy and in Afghanistan. The politician who came across as a redeemer in 2008 is now in need of redemption himself…
"Faced with a country keening for reassurance and reinvention, Obama seems at a loss. Regarding his political skills, he turns out to be the odd case of a pragmatist who can’t learn from his mistakes and adapt…
"After failing to interrupt his Camp David weekend to buck up the country on one of its worst days in history[In Afghanistan], he tacked on his condolences for the soldiers’ families to his economic pep talk, in what had to be the most inept oratorical segue of his presidency…
"His withholding and reactive nature has made him seem strangely irrelevant in Washington, trapped by his own temperament. He doesn’t lead, and he doesn’t understand why we don’t feel led..."
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