As The Spin Ceases, Obama's Apologists Begin To Fold Their Tents

Pat Caddell was one of Bill Clinton's principal pollsters. A more partisan Democrat you are not likely to find.

So when he and his colleague, Douglas E. Schoen, also a Democrat pollster, join forces to publish an essay like this, in Saturday's Washington Post, it says several things:

1. It admits the obvious, that Obama is a fraud, a self-dealing narcissist who will say anything, and do anything to anyone, to further his own agenda. He would rather poison the well of the culture than not get his own way, or exercise even a touch of the humility required to be an effective leader.

2. Obama's contempt for the nation extends to even the Presidency itself. Caddell and Schoen have been around a while, and they cannot remember a more disastrous Presidency since Richard Nixon, as in a President who so thoroughly degraded the office. And that's with Carter and Clinton intervening! Whoddathunk we'd have someone who literally stained the office more than Bill Clinton?

3. The Washington Post is no longer willing to carry the water for Obama. The honeymoon is over. He has abused even them past the point of tolerance. For this essay to even appear in their pages, this iconic institution of the Left, means that the publisher has had enough. The publisher has a duty to keep his doors open long after the Clown Circus has left town. If he destroys the paper's credibility by looking the other way as Obama burns the country down, he destroys the business. He has a duty to his shareholders and employees, and is finally locating his spine.

4. The Yew Nork Times was cited in the essay. They won't be far behind, ya'll.

Here's a smattering of what Caddell and Schoen had to say. OS never thought, in his lifetime, he'd see Caddell say this about any Democrat:

In a Univision interview on Monday, the president, who campaigned in 2008 by referring not to a "Red America" or a "Blue America" but a United States of America, urged Hispanic listeners to vote in this spirit: "We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us."

Recently, Obama suggested that if Republicans gain control of the House and/or Senate as forecast, he expects not reconciliation and unity but "hand-to-hand combat" on Capitol Hill.

What a change two years can bring.

We can think of only one other recent president who would display such indifference to the majesty of his office: Richard Nixon.

We write in sadness as traditional liberal Democrats who believe in inclusion. Like many Americans, we had hoped that Obama would maintain the spirit in which he campaigned. Instead, since taking office, he has pitted group against group for short-term political gain that is exacerbating the divisions in our country and weakening our national identity.The culture of attack politics and demonization risks compromising our ability to address our most important issues - and the stature of our nation's highest office.

We are also disturbed that the office of the president is mounting attacks on private individuals, such as the founders of the group Americans for Prosperity. Having been forged politically during Watergate - one of us was the youngest member of Nixon's enemies list - we are chilled by the prospect of any U.S. president willing to marshal the power of his office against a private citizen.

The president is the leader of our society. That office is supposed to be a unifying force. When a president opts for polarization, it is not only bad politics, but it also diminishes the prestige of his office and damages our social consensus.

Moreover, the divisive rhetoric that Obama has pursued can embolden his supporters and critics to take more extreme actions, worsening the spiral.


Caddell and Schoen are saying, in effect: As far as we're concerned, stick a fork in him, he's done. We won't be identified as his supporters anymore.

OS is cynic enough to know that they are trying to prop up another run by Hillary. God help us, we'd be going from the frying pan into the fire, from one creep to another. Bill would be back in the White House, bangin' babes and creating chaos.
No, no, no, no.

No!

Here's hoping, for the good of the Republic, that Heath Shuler runs for the Democrat nomination. He's one of the first Democrat House members who called for MizNancy to step aside, and that he won't vote for her, in any case. OS may not vote for him in 2012, but he wouldn't lay awake at night if Shuler won.

We need grownups, on both sides of the aisle.

We desperately need them at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Maybe this essay from Caddell and Schoen will start the process.