Like many Americans who supported him, I long for a triple-A president to run a triple-A country.
By Mort Zuckerman
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Mr. Zuckerman is chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report
Mr. Zuckerman was on Fox today and reiterated that he has made mistakes. His support of Obama was one of them.
By Mort Zuckerman
Mr. Obama seems unable to get a firm grip on the toughest issue facing his presidency and the country—the economy. He now asserts he is going to "pivot" to jobs. Now we pivot to jobs? When there are already 25 million Americans who are either unemployed or cannot find full-time work? Does this president not appreciate what is going on?
Many voters who supported him are no longer elated by the historic novelty of his candidacy and presidency. They hoped for a president who would be effective. Remember "Yes We Can"? Now many of his sharpest critics are his former supporters. Witness Bill Broyles, a one-time admirer who recently wrote in Newsweek that "Americans aren't inspired by well-meaning weakness."
The president who first inspired with great speeches on red and blue America now seems to lack the ability to communicate any sense of resolve for a program, or any realization of the urgency of what might befall us. The teleprompter he almost always uses symbolizes and compounds his emotional distance from his audience.
We lack a coherent and muscular economic strategy, as Mr. Obama and his staff seem almost completely focused on his re-election. He should be spending most of his time on the nitty-gritty of the job instead of on fund raisers, bus tours and visits to diners, which essentially are in service of his political interests. Increasingly his solutions seem to boil down to Vote for Me.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576526611297517664.html
Mr. Zuckerman is chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report
Mr. Zuckerman was on Fox today and reiterated that he has made mistakes. His support of Obama was one of them.
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