Is Obama Losing the Magic

Contentions has a series of posts that are worth reading on this. See
He Needs Some Serious Self-Reflection

Bob Woodward on Obama

Has the Magic Worn Off?

Also Democrat Mickey Kaus points out some hard truths at Obama as Health Care Salesman: He Sucks!

I think this is all was predictable and my reason are similar to the the ones in the Contentions pieces.

"But Van Dyk also is onto something about the atmospherics of the Obama presidency. This is not a man who has faced intense ideological criticism or practiced, as he instructed American Jewish leaders to do, “serious self-reflection.” He is certain of his liberal views, contemptuous of people who are stuck in “old thinking,” annoyed with even the minimal press criticism he receives and unpracticed in accommodation and negotiation with his political opponents. What was admired as a “cool temperament” in the campaign is now seen as remoteness or blindness to the realities that swirl around him. Yes, he’s perfectly stoic – in his utterly blindness to the ground-breaking events in Iran and his domestic economic failures. So calm! And stubborn, if not oblivious."

Also as Bob Woodard points out Obama has a ton of balls in the air. Way too many at one time. This and his peculiar use of political capital is baffling too me