So says Fouad Ajami, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and the Hoover Institution.
Don’t miss today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on the leader who
“would be different things to different people. The Obama coalition was the coming together of disparate groups: the white professional liberals seeking absolution for the country in the election of an African-American man, the opponents of the Iraq war who grew more strident as the project in Iraq was taking root, the African-American community that had been invested in the Clintons and then came around out of an understandable pride in one of its own.
The last segment of the electorate to flock to the Obama banners were the blue-collar workers who delivered him Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. He was not their man. They fully knew that he didn’t share their culture. They were, by his portrait, clinging to thier guns and religion, but the promise of economic help, and of protectionism, carried the day with them.
The Obama devotees were the victims of their own belief in political magic…
Those protesters in those townhall meetings have served notice that Mr. Obama’s charismatic moment has passed.”
Thank goodness.
