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  No Obama Obits, Please
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Last EditedMonsieur  Jan 19, 2010 04:19pm
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AuthorJoe Conason
News DateTuesday, January 19, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionHaving taken the oath of office just one year ago, Barack Obama is a flashing meteor that sputtered out too soon—or so the national media narrative tells us. According to this story line, the young president is a presumptuous liberal who disappointed his own idealistic followers while irritating everyone else. At ABC News, the leading tipsters at The Note already speak of a “final judgment,” so we may soon hear declarations of a “failed presidency” from Washington’s pundit herd.

After a run of extraordinary luck that helped get him into the White House, Mr. Obama is indeed confronting his share of trouble. He may well encounter more and worse as the midterm election approaches. But he and his critics should remember the last time a Democratic president had to listen to the drafting of his own political obituary.

Those premature farewells came early in Bill Clinton’s first term.

The result is that too many Americans today believe that he has accomplished little and forfeited their trust. They happen to be wrong—just as they were wrong when they dismissed the Clinton presidency less than halfway into his first term.
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