By GORDON OSMOND
Paltalk News Network Contributor
The hallmark of the shifting sands of Obama’s first year in office would seem to be missed self-imposed deadlines. Gitmo is still open, the calendar year-end mandate to Iran has come and gone without effect, and most notably, recently, and significantly, the ever extending deadlines on health care reform have finally been overshot once and for all. (Gays in the military are still suffering in silence, but, to be fair, Obama’s promise to do something about that was not coupled with a date certain, as the others listed above were.)
It seems that Obama has indeed met his Waterloo now that his signature cause, on which he wasted the country’s time for a year, has toileted, or loo’d if you like. If any further evidence of Obama’s loss of power were necessary, the tortuously produced expression on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s face in announcing that the House was no longer prepared to do Obama’s bidding by adopting the Senate health reform bill “as is” supplied it in spades. The deflation can be sensed even in Ohio, where Obama’s cutsy jokes are for the first time falling flat, even when delivered in his populist mode, e.g., “This is not about me.” No? Since when?
