Never Again

Via Hot Air

The NRSC's latest web ad hits Obama hard, using his own words about George W. Bush to highlight the failed leadership of Obama's presidency. The criticism intertwined from the White House news network MSNBC and James Carville reinforces a suggestion even the left can't deny his failures any more. Peggy Noonan made a similar point in today's Wall Street Journal:

What continues to fascinate me is Mr. Obama's standing with Democrats. They don't love him. Half the party voted for Hillary Clinton, and her people have never fully reconciled themselves to him. But he is what they have. They are invested in him. In time—after the 2010 elections go badly—they are going to start to peel off. The political operative James Carville, the most vocal and influential of the president's Gulf critics, signaled to Democrats this week that they can start to peel off. He did it through the passion of his denunciations.

The disaster in the Gulf may well spell the political end of the president and his administration, and that is no cause for joy. It's not good to have a president in this position—weakened, polarizing and lacking broad public support—less than halfway through his term. That it is his fault is no comfort. It is not good for the stability of the world, or its safety, that the leader of "the indispensble nation" be so weakened.

Noonan can't see a way for Obama to recover.  I am not ruling out the media rallying to his defense when the reality of a GOP takeover becomes a little too much for them to contemplate.  The lesson for Noonan and the rest of the media should be obvious, however.  You can't cheerlead a political lightweight to competence.  Never Again, indeed:

April Fools: Obama the Promise Keeper

Via Hot Air

The NRSC hails Obama the promise keeper in this April Fools day ad. If you read some of the comments on the video at Hot Air some suggest this would have been better had they cut the ad immediately after the April Fools line. I guess that is a matter of artistic preference. I think it is quite effective personally including the sarcastic reminder from the campaign that Hillary was among the first to see through Obama.  Foreshadowing what was to come when Obama was elected, the Clintons were painted racists for pointing out the Emperor had no clothes.  We certainly know use of  that tactic is one "promise" from the Obama campaign that has been kept.

This ad gives us a hint what Obama has in store for him come 2012. Never has one been elected to the highest office in the land with so little scrutiny and yet promised so much. Obama has left a long trail of broken promises which will be fodder for more ads between now and 2012. First stop, we must hold his minions in the Legislative branch accountable for aiding and abetting Obama as he breaks every absurd campaign promise he ever made.