More and more I get the feeling the President is running for Global Prom King. The trip to Copenhagen was just the latest in his global prom king campaign, which began with the trip to Berlin and hasn't stopped since. The problem with this style of leadership is that while it tastes great, it is less filling. When the people are told every thirty minutes that the President is leading us to a "watershed" "critical" "pivotal" moment... we may begin to expect a pivot. Yet, in so many ways, the promises of the President quickly turn themselves on their head. See, for example, this mordant column: Barack W. Bush.
I have my own issues with the policies of the President. But even those on his side must find it frustrating when they find themselves forced to ask, as Krauthammer does today, "Does anything he says remain operative beyond the fading of the audience applause?"
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