The liberal press fawned over candidate Obama, a man with no relevant experience.  He’s an ameteur, they suddenly realize now.  And it is coming from all sides.

The leading liberal rag, the New York Times, notes his foreign policy failures in an article stingingly titled Diplomacy 101:

We were thrilled when President Obama decided to plunge fully into the Middle East peace effort. He appointed a skilled special envoy, George Mitchell…. Nine months later, the president’s promising peace initiative has unraveled.

Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board….

The leading liberal mag, Newsweek, also notes Obama’s inadequacies:

Is Obama Keeping His Promises?

….The thinking inside the new administration, according to a former State Department official, was that George W. Bush had botched things and the new team, guided by Obama’s pro-engagement approach, could fix them.

Well, not only are things not getting fixed, they may be getting more broken. What was justly considered Bush’s mess in all these places is rapidly becoming Obama’s mess. In the Mideast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have outmaneuvered Obama, forcing him to retreat publicly from a call to freeze settlements. Iran has so completely spurned Obama that the president’s careful and patient call for diplomacy and avoidance of sanctions is beginning to look like appeasement. And in Afghanistan, while a decision on troop deployments appears imminent, the public display of mixed signals by senior military and U.S. officials over many months has created a dangerous power vacuum, further undermining America’s already low credibility….

Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan refers to Obama as, “An icon of a White House that is coming to seem amateurish.”

Democratic sympathizer and opinion journalist Elizabeth Drew writes at Politico:

A critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man. Most significant, these doubters now find themselves with a new reluctance to defend Obama at a phase of his presidency when he needs defenders more urgently than ever…. …embarrassment gives these people a new reason … to conclude that he wasn’t the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought….

OUCH!!!

Then there is Leslie Gelb, the primo liberal spokesperson as president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. Writing for the Daily Beast, he calls the Obama presidency “Amateur Hour at the White House.”

….the … limited value per day of presidential effort suggests a disturbing amateurishness in managing America’s power.

Gelb goes on to describe Obama as “clumsy” and “fumbling.”

WHEW!!!

Well, now that the leading liberal journalists and opinion-shapers have finally seen the light, perhaps it will be considered allowable for the lock-step Obama-sycophant press to describe his clay feet.  However ideologically liberal, journalists are still basically sharks at heart, and now there is blood in the water.  We shall see.

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