ANYONE WHO WINS THE PRESIDENCY HAD TO DO SOME THINGS RIGHT...:

White House touch: From gold to brass? (JONATHAN ALLEN & CAROL E. LEE, 6/3/10, Politico)

They toppled Hillary Clinton, crushed John McCain and managed to get the first black man elected president of the United States.

But now a series of recent missteps just keeps getting worse for Barack Obama’s political operation, already under fire from inside the party for losing its golden touch.

...but he only beat Hillary because he got such huge proportions of the black vote in Democratic primaries and Maverick because the House GOP decided a Depression would have a salutary effect on America. And those are the only items you can cite for him and his team being effective. Jimmy Carter won a nomination and an election too, no?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 3, 2010 6:08 AM