Quote of the Day I

Peggy Noonan, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, writing about our President and his New Hampshire town hall on health care reform:

The president seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics—the swift rise, the astute reading of a varied electorate—who is finding out day by day that he isn't actually all that good at it. In this sense he does seem reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, who was brilliant at becoming president but not being president.

COTTonLINE has maintained for some time now that the best historical model for understanding the Obama administration is its resemblance to the Carter administration. This is an omen of a one-term presidency, perhaps Noonan agrees.