Obama’s Not Alone: Presidents End Up Unpopular
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 21st, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama’s Not Alone: Presidents End Up Unpopular
Michael Kazin, TNR
In Washington, on both left and right, a new piece of conventional wisdom is hardening into place: Barack Obama's presidency is slowly collapsing under the burdens of a bad economy, a rudderless foreign policy, and confusion about how the man who once twinkled with charisma wants to change the country. Even if the president manages to get re-elected, his chance to "win the future," pundits agree, is probably over. Such a descent is neither a remarkable nor an exceptional development in American politics, which might provide a bit of ironic comfort to Obama as he…
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WASHINGTON — Karl Rove won't say it aloud, but he is afraid of Rick Perry: afraid that the smack-talking Texas governor will wreck the GOP's chances of winning the White House and the Senate in 2012.The Perry-Rove story is shaping up as the ultimate tale of dangerously unintended consequences, with Rove in the role of Dr. Frankenstein and Perry as his living, rampaging political creation.Insiders know that Rove helped launch Perry's career by advising Perry's successful run for agriculture commissioner in 1990.But the larger, deeper point is that Rove designed and built…
