Well, Hello Again, Ike
3rd February 2010
George Will takes Obama to the woodshed. And nobody does it better.
Barack Obama, in the 13th month of his presidency, is learning what Clinton learned in his third month: The grinding arithmetic of economic and budgetary facts sets the parameters of political possibility.
Today, with the economy still resembling a patient etherized upon a table, and with deficits causing voters’ hair to stand on end, Obama is discovering his inner Eisenhower Republican.