POLITICAL SKILL. Obama has been a smashing success in putting his stamp on policies and getting them enacted: economic stimulus, health care, financial reform. But that’s only half of what’s required of a president politically. The other half is fostering and husbanding public support—enthusiasm even—for his programs. Obama has failed at this. Rather than gain popular backing for his health care plan, its passage has spawned a movement to repeal it, led by Republicans and Tea Party activists.

This, to me, is the biggest fallacy about Obama.  He has passed his party's agenda with a majority of his party in Congress.  He is a "smashing success" with his party but it is why Obama doesn't have the public support.  Obama is seen as the true "Manchurian candidate."  The "One" who would do the party's bidding at any cost...including the majority of the nation's citizens saying NO.  And it explains why Hillary didn't have the party-backing...she is her own person with her own ideas. And the lesson she learned was to cow-tow to the party, hence her ridiculous amount of campaigning for him and accepting the SOS position so as to "unify" the party.  I still think both were not good moves on her part, but she is party-loyal to a fault.  Every candidate has their flaw..this is my beloved Hillary's most glaring.

The American voter is most to blame for this because they got sucked into the media hoopla instead of staying the course.  I watched Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" tonight and it brought up a point the Dems managed to sweep under the rug in November 2008.  The Congressional offices were swamped with the voters screaming HELL NO to the bank bailouts...and the Dem-led Congress voted against it.  But when Goldman Sachs' guy...excuse me...the Secretary of the Treasury under the Bush adminstration went back to The Hill with all the "end of the nation" scare- tactics, the DEM majority Congress voted for the bailout. They waffled to the "boogey-man" from Sachs in order to save their own jobs in the November elections.  It was another rush-job just like the healthcare bill with no accountability and that is why the major officers of these floundering institutions got their millions in bonuses with no reprecussion while the regular folks found themselves out in the streets due to foreclosure.

"Caveat emptor", America.  Let the buyer beware. This November, don't let the media again sell you the "golden calf" that isn't worth a penny.