Obama/Carter: Is It Deja Vu Malaise?

As excellent column from Noemie Emery in the Washington Examiner. Here are a few excerpts:

Mark Aug. 31, 2013, on your calendar as the day on which Barack Obama passed James Earl Carter in the pantheon of hapless presidents and set out for parts yet unknown. . . . Who could have dreamed that Obamacare’s mandates would make people stop hiring, and prolong the recession? Or that passing an unpopular bill against the fiercely expressed will of the people through an in-your-face tactic just short of illegal would create a fierce and entrenched opposition, in which a Republican House and 30 angry state governments would constantly thwart him?
And who ever dreamed that his patented blend of incoherence, bluster, back-downs and dithering would leave Syria’s Bashar Assad triumphant, the rebels deflated, allies despairing, the British Parliament saying "no thank you," and his credibility in highly predictable tatters?
Surely not the man Michael Beschloss once described as our most brilliant president, and whose genius and judgment, as many assured us, put everyone else in the shade.

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