Uh, oh.
This is, how shall I put it? Unprecedented for THE ONE. Yeah, that about sums it up. This marks the first time in his life when his cheering section hasn't been cheering...when his slobbering sycophants haven't been telling him that his poop doesn't stink...
I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013.
That might be the sensible thing to do. It's hard for a president to win a second term when unemployment is painfully high. If the economy were in full rebound mode, Obama might win anyway. But it isn't, and it may fall into a second recession — in which case voters will decide his middle name is Hoover, not Hussein. Why not leave of his own volition instead of waiting to get the ax?
Where is this particular piece of advice coming from? Fox News? No. The Washington Times? Uh, uh. No, this is coming from
the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune.This comes on the heels of James Careville's "It's time to panic" essay.
Yes, the tipping point with the media has definitely passed.
O'Bama is no longer the godlike being of the 2008 campaign who proclaimed that his coming would be heralded by the oceans ceasing to rise. No, that guy doesn't exist anymore. He never did, of course, but now that mythic figure has been purged from the MFM.
There will perhaps not be a flood of editorials encouraging him to quit but I predict an ever escalating flow of criticism that has been heretofore unknown in the personal experience of the young princeling. Worse, for him, history will, I believe, judge him more harshly than GWB. Humiliation that lasts a lifetime and beyond.
HotAir analysis can be found here.