Let’s start off by acknowledging that Bob Herbert is as likely to vote against Barack Obama as … Michelle Obama. However, the bloom has definitely fallen off of the rose with the New York Times columnist, and he argues that Obama may have taken his supporters on the Left too much for granted. Obama has squandered his exceptionality in a series of zig-zags, Herbert writes, and what’s left without that exceptionality?

Senator Obama is not just tacking gently toward
the center. He’s lurching right when it suits him, and he’s zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.

In other words, he’s not just becoming another old-style poli...

Let’s start off by acknowledging that Bob Herbert is as likely to vote against Barack Obama as … Michelle Obama. However, the bloom has definitely fallen off of the rose with the New York Times columnist, and he argues that Obama may have taken his supporters on the Left too much for granted. Obama has squandered his exceptionality in a series of zig-zags, Herbert writes, and what’s left without that exceptionality?

Senator Obama is not just tacking gently toward
the center. He’s lurching right when it suits him, and he’s zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.

In other words, he’s not just becoming another old-style politician — he’s another old-style politician with no experience and little grasp of the major issues the nation faces. During the primaries, he asked America to consider his judgment instead of his opponents’ experience, but then stumbled through a series of gaffes to an unenthusiastic finish in the primaries. Now he has started discarding the positions that demonstrated his supposedly superior judgment. What’s left except a thirst for power?

Of course, this will have little effect on his true believers. Or will it?

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/08/bob-herbert-says-this-isnt-the-obama-he-thought-he-knew/