Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal, describes our president thusly:
Obama, a self-besotted charismatic who can’t tell the difference between showbiz and strategy, and who enjoys unburdening himself of moral insights to his peers.A "self-besotted charismatic?" Don't hold back, Peggy, tell us what you really think.
Meanwhile The New York Times' snark-meister Maureen Dowd is vastly unimpressed by Obama and SecState Kerry. She writes:
Obama’s flip-flopping, ambivalent leadership led him to the exact place he never wanted to be: unilateral instead of unified. Once again, as with gun control and other issues, he had not done the groundwork necessary to line up support.