Agree. He’s a phenomenal campaigner. I can only think of a couple times I’ve seen that guy since the election.
Agree. It’s like choosing between Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Charlie: Idiot savant or just idiot. Emilio: who?
Agree. Though in fairness, it isn’t the front pagers at Dkos, they’re all about electing Democrats. But they allow anyone to post about almost anything. And some of them, as a Fox News guy once described a dear friend whose since been banned there, live out where the buses don’t run. (Funny aside here, I just googled that phrase, and it’s attributed to a Miami Vice episode and more recently, a 2009 statement by Brit Hume about someone. But John Gibson, at least 2 years earlier, used it to describe my blogger buddy.)
Agreed. I see it more as a failure in leadership style than a failure in leadership. His style might have worked in a different time. Not now. He’s more concerned with making deals than with policy goals. But whether by ignorance or malevolence, it doesn’t matter. He’s failed.