Hope he can change says VDH

"Anyone who cares about the U.S., at home and overseas, must be worried, very worried, about the disastrous last two weeks. Even the fawning media — that is responsible in some way for the crisis, given that they chose to be Pravda-like in encouraging the messianic style that got a haughty Obama in his present mess — will soon start bailing in efforts to restore their last fides. If a Dick Morris figure does not come to the rescue soon, Obama’s soaring rhetoric of hope and change will become the stuff of Leno/Letterman and general laughter. Bush was unfairly demonized, but no one abroad thought he was predictably soft and would be so-so about protecting U.S. interests, or that his words and his deeds would be so often in direct antithesis."

. . . the most exalted ethical rhetoric ever, and the greatest ethical lapses of any incipient administration in memory. Over 10 lobbyists now appointed, plus all the tax problems.

. . . the Blago tapes yet to be released.

. . . inflated lectures on historic foreign policy made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own country and his predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to a censured Saudi-run press organ

. . . shrill campaign rhetoric about FISA, Guantanamo, Patriot Act, Iraq, followed by ‘all that for now staying the same’

. . . the stimulus is an ungodly disaster

. . . Robert Gibbs, the new press secretary is, is a Scott McClellan nightmare that won’t go away

. . . Biden has ridiculed the Chief Justice, trashed the former VP and bragged on himself ad nauseam

. . . really creepy people abroad are now lining up to test Obama

. . . Read the full article, if you dare, by Victor Davis Hansen