Pardon the vernacular, but there’s no other way to say this.
Appearing in today’s N&R, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd (unposted) bitch-slaps President Obama up one side and down the other:
Obama’s response on Monday to Friday’s Standard & Poor’s downgrade and to the 22 Navy SEAL commandos and eight other soldiers killed by a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan was once more too little, too late. It was just like his belated, ineffectual response to the BP oil spill and his reaction to the would-be Christmas Day bomber; it took him three days on vacation in Hawaii to speak about the terrorist incident when the country was scared about national security, and then he spent the next week callously shuttling from the podium to the golf course.
…After failing to interrupt his Camp David weekend to buck up the country on one of its worst days in history, he tacked on his condolences for the soldiers’ families to his economic pep talk, in what had to be the most inept oratorical segue of his presidency.
Ouch. Believe it or not, I’m not getting any vicarious joy from a liberal like Maureen Dowd venting her spleen. For the sake of our country, I really, really wish we were not in this situation right now.
