I must share with you, faithful readers, that I was stunned when I heard and read the criticism of Barack Obama by Mort Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News, and editor-in chief of US News & World Report.
Zuckerman is one of several very wealthy and influential Americans who publicly supported the candidacy of Barack Obama and his rise to the presidency of this country. But Mr. Zuckerman has since articulated a reversal of position, primarily due to the Obama administration’s bungling of the priority and effectiveness of its policy initiatives.
I, your blogger of modest means, am one of many who did not support Mr. Obama from the very onset of his campaign.
Nevertheless, while disagreeing, I respected the view of those who advanced logical reasons for Obama’s candidacy (excluding, of course, the ones who seemed to have raised him to the status of deity – that is anything but logical).
In a radio interview yesterday, to which I tuned in on my way back home from laps at the JCC, Mr. Zuckerman verbally took the president to the woodshed, using phrases such as, “He has worn out his welcome . . . diminished his credibility. He is (now) more of a politician, less of a leader. He hasn’t focused on what is by far the greatest problem, the economy . . . . (he has spent) too much time on health care . . . (there is) too much debt in the long term." On it went.
That criticism is in character with several full length articles which Zuckerman wrote: One of them can be found at U.S. News & World Report entitled “The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama.”
Mort Zuckerman is (as certainly am I) very dissatisfied with Obama’s performance. In his column, he writes of Obama, “His promiscuity on TV has made him seem as if he is still a candidate instead of president and commander-in-chief.” Powerful words indeed, and Zuckerman has more where those came from.
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