VDH titles his blog reflections, "The Impending Obama Meltdown," and concludes [my emphases]:
. . . We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama
implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by
messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that
soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to
good old-fashioned Chicago politicking. . .
. . . This is quite serious. I can't recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton's initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood but quite dangerous. . . (more . . .)
. . . This is quite serious. I can't recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton's initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood but quite dangerous. . . (more . . .)
Me: Wow. I knew Obama was off to a rocky start, but when VDH says with alarm, "This is quite serious," I take him seriously.