Friday, January 29, 2010

GOOD READ FROM MONA CHAREN

Carteresque

Obama thinks we’ve lost confidence in America when we’ve just lost confidence in him.

In 1960, Fidel Castro addressed the U.N. General Assembly for four and a half hours. President Obama didn’t hit that target last night — it only felt like it. The president had some things to get off this chest — and if it took 70-plus minutes, well, lucky us, we got to listen.

The speech answered the question that began to form when Republicans took the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey and came into sharp focus after Scott Brown delivered his haymaker on January 21: Would Obama pivot like Clinton in 1994 or not?

He will not.

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