Pure Joy: The Collapse Of American Liberalism May Now Be In Sight

Founded by John Harris in 2007, Politico is but one of the Leftist political narrative websites that permeate the Internet.  Three years ago Politico came under fire for its flagrant liberal bias and suffered a substantial loss of readership.

I rarely visit the site but was enticed by the headline “Can Obama Reboot” at Memeorandum. 

Glenn Thrush, Senior Staff Writer and Carrie Budoff Brown, Senior White House reporter, yearn to regale us with yet another fairy tale about their beloved messiah.  Along the way their wordsmithing blankets him with their sympathy and reveals their growing sorrow at the potential collapse of American liberalism as seen through the grumblings of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer’s inner circle.

Excerpts from the piece:

Barack Obama is antsy. His aides can see it when he alights from Air Force One from the all-too-occasional campaign trips he has taken this fall. There’s a sigh, an unhappy-camper body language when he finds himself back in the depressing slipstream of Ebola confabs and national-security-crisis-of-the-day meetings. The vibe, according to people in his orbit, is not so much of being checked out as of being fed up.   

“[I] do like campaigning…It’s fun,” Obama said on Thursday, speaking wistfully at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud in Maine. But the Michaud event was the exception, not the rule. “There have been $2 billion in ads shitting on the president and no one to defend him,” a senior administration official told us. “He is very fired up to get this campaign behind him, to run through the tape.” 

Obama, for so long the man with the bright future, has hated being relegated to a sidelined pariah in the midterms—even if it is the inevitable lot of a second-termer with approval ratings hovering in the low 40s—according to a dozen current and former Obama advisers we spoke with in recent days. He both resents the narrative that he’s basically irrelevant and doesn’t much relish the fact that many of his longest-serving staffers, the remnant core of his once-buzzing and brash White House, are strapping themselves to ejector seats. More than anything, Obama’s loathing for Washington, an attitude that reads as ennui to outsiders, has hardened into a sullen resignation at being trapped in a broken system he failed to change, advisers told us. 

“I sense a certain fatalism there, and it’s disturbing,” says a former adviser on Obama’s campaign who, like many others we talked with for this story, requested anonymity. “There’s a sense that ‘I’ve tried everything, and look where it got me.’ People misread it as disengagement. It’s frustration. But who cares? It’s a bad mind-set.” Another Obama veteran adds, “The bully pulpit is gone, maybe forever.”