We all hate hearing "I told you so," especially when it is true that we were told and chose not to listen. Nevertheless, it has to be said. COTTonLINE noted six months ago that Barack Hussein Obama was about three years away from a job as an Illinois state senator; not a position widely touted as preparation for the U.S. presidency.
When I read about the guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal going hard aground outside Pearl Harbor I thought, this is a metaphor for what is happening in Washington. The ship of state is aground and in danger; while "Captain" Obama is like a wet-behind-the-ears ensign fresh out of NROTC.
The first three weeks of the Obama presidency have been a comedy of errors, very nearly an unmitigated disaster. Pretty clearly we have elected another President with training wheels; a fellow who happens to be one hell of an orator but brings almost nothing else to the job. Now we see if he can learn on the job and if he can do it before he commits so many screw-ups that his image, in the minds of everybody who matters, is irreparably destroyed. I am not optimistic about his chances, or ours, for that matter.
Later... Rasmussen Reports does a daily calculation they call the Presidential Approval Index, explained here. When he was first inaugurated, Obama had a rating of +29. Today that rating has dropped to +11. That is a lot to lose in less than 3 weeks.
