This is a reoccurring theme for Obama: repeatedly delivering bold speeches that set dazzlingly high bars for action, then slowly backpedaling into a muddle and letting the issue — and his poll numbers — fade away.
From his 2008 campaign pledge to ban lobbyists in his administration to the speech he gave at the Newtown memorial service saying he was finally going to do something significant about gun control, Saturday’s announcement was another little splinter in the heartbreak for many Obama true believers…
Even before Saturday morning, the feckless narrative was renewed last week with his “we don’t have a strategy yet” on ISIL line as he, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have all seemed to express different versions of how to confront the Islamic State threat.
“It is a small example of the actual promise of his presidency, which was to change the way business was done, to make people feel like this country was working for them,” said one frustrated Democratic strategist. “People are just giving up.”
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