Will: Obama Can't Persuade

Read what George Will said on ABC This Week of President Obama's ability to influence voters and others with his rhetorical powers:

He went to Massachusetts to campaign against Scott Brown; Brown is now a senator. He went to New Jersey to campaign against Chris Christie, who’s now governor. He went to Virginia to campaign against Bob McDonnell, who’s now governor. He campaigned for the health-care plan extensively, it became less popular. He campaigned in 2010 for the Democrats, they were shellacked. He began, in a sense, his presidency flying to Copenhagen to get Chicago the Olympics; Chicago was the first city eliminated. There is no evidence that the man has the rhetorical powers that he is relying on.

Those powers got him elected, but seem to have evaporated immediately upon inauguration. I found this text quote on National Review Online's The Corner. You can see the video on the ABC This Week site here.