Obama Admits He Was Too Optimistic—“Duh”

In an interview published by Reuters today, President Obama admits that he underestimated how intractable the problems in the Middle East are and has not made the progress towards peace that he wanted. Now if he would make the same admission about his goals of reshaping the political process in this country, he might regains some of the support he has lost.

In both these areas President Obama’s strength is also his weakness.

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Healthcare Reform: Barack Obama the True Believer vs. McCain the Sophist

We will hear tomorrow how, even though he begged for bipartisanship until our ears bled, President Obama's speech on healthcare was too partisan—which I suppose means he did not embrace the cynical Republican call to abandon what has been done and start over. Even President Obama is not that naïve!

The President does, however, have the naïveté to believe that there remain some Republicans more focused on serving the public rather than the Republican Party who will truly join in a bipartisan effort on healthcare reform. He also hopes that some call to patriotism or moral necessity will touch what remains of their hearts. Within hours of the President's speech, John McCain proved that Obama might as well hope to find the Loch Ness monster in his bathtub.

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