Reality Bites

The New York Times leans hard left. That makes it extra-fascinating when one of their reporters, Jeff Zeleny, speaking on ABC's This Week, and found in Jim Geraghty's column in National Review Online, says the following about the challenges facing President Obama in 2012:

For all the powers of the incumbency, for all the advantages he had as he was rolling through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, one thing that hung over him is REALITY (emphasis in original). That’s one thing that he didn’t have to deal with in 2007 or 2008. He could say all these things, make all these promises, which he did.

REALITY bites, doesn't it, Mr. President?