If you don’t read Frank Rich’s weekly column in the New York Times, you really should start. As usual, his latest column is spot on:
It’s this misplaced trust in elites both outside the White House and within it that seems to prevent Obama from realizing the moment that history has handed to him. Americans are still seething at the bonus-grabbing titans of the bubble and at the public and private institutions that failed to police them. But rather than embrace a unifying vision that could ignite his presidency, Obama shies away from connecting the dots as forcefully and relentlessly as the facts and Americans’ anger demand.
I can’t think of a more succinct way to sum up the first eighteen month’s of Obama’s presidency. It’s not enough to figure out that there is a problem, there is a need to forcefully act on it. Unfortunately, Obama seems happy to deign to his advisers and to the rubes that run our biggest corporations rather than just take matters into his own hands and do what needs to be done. Sadly, I think that by the time he realizes this, it will be far, far too late, and we as a country will be far, far worse off for it.
It’s still about change, Mr. President. I hope you can soon realize that.
