{"id":238045,"date":"2010-01-27T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:35:08","slug":"bob-herbert-who-is-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238045","title":{"rendered":"Bob Herbert: Who is Barack Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOB HERBERT writes in the NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Who is Barack Obama<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Americans are still looking for the answer, and if they don\u2019t get it soon \u2014 or if they don\u2019t like the answer \u2014 the president\u2019s current political problems will look like a walk in the park.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama<\/a> may be personally very appealing, but he has positioned himself all over the political map: the anti-Iraq<\/a> war candidate who escalated the war in Afghanistan<\/a>; the opponent of health insurance mandates who made a mandate to buy insurance the centerpiece of his plan; the president who stocked his administration with Wall Street insiders and went to the mat for the banks and big corporations, but who is now trying to present himself as a born-again populist.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama<\/a> is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted. He is creating a credibility gap for himself, and if it widens much more he won\u2019t be able to close it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read More of Bob Herbert\u2019s editorial in the NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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