NOW THEY TELL US?:

Why Obama needs a big play as reality takes over (Michael Tomasky, 9/08/09, The Guardian)

Put the radiant optimism of the early Obama weeks and months out of your mind. It's gone. Reality has set in, and with force. Any thought that Obama could wave a wand and make the economy better, or give a speech that would force Iran's mullahs to see reason, has been defenestrated definitively.

Such thoughts were always unrealistic...

...but were the basis of his campaign.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 8, 2009 5:28 PM