Obama Loses a True Believer

It takes some people longer than others to wake up to reality.  From Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt:

I don't pay much attention to Andrew Sullivan anymore, but his latest hyperbolic reaction is worth a gander, just to reaffirm that Sullivan is probably the last person who genuinely believed that Barack Obama cared about controlling the deficit: "The core challenge of this time is not the cost of discretionary spending. Obama knows this; everyone knows this. The crisis is the cost of future entitlements and defense, about which Obama proposes nothing. Yes, there's some blather. But Obama will not risk in any way any vulnerability on taxes to his right or entitlement spending to his left. He convened a deficit commission in order to throw it in the trash. If I were Alan Simpson or Erskine Bowles, I'd feel duped. And they were duped. All of us who took Obama's pitch as fiscally responsible were duped."

Yes, you dupe, you were duped. 

He continues: "To all those under 30 who worked so hard to get this man elected, know this: he just screwed you over. He thinks you're fools. Either the US will go into default because of Obama's cowardice, or you will be paying far far more for far far less because this president has no courage when it counts. He let you down. On the critical issue of America's fiscal crisis, he represents no hope and no change. Just the same old Washington politics he once promised to end."

Many of us weren't foolish enough to take Obama at his word in 2008 because we actually looked at where he'd come from and the type of people he "palled around with", to quote Sarah Palin. We knew right away he wasn't what he presented himself to be, but those who allow their emotions to rule their intellect have had a harder time waking up.