President Obama’s faithful losing hope as the magic fades

This president gives rousing speeches. He did it again yesterday. He bounded out onto the Hynes Convention Center stage, all youth and vigor, open-necked white shirt, navy blazer. But he didn’t sell me, or reassure me. And he obviously knows he’s having trouble connecting — even with true believers. He talked about this yesterday: the “fun” and “feeling good” and overwhelming optimism of Inauguration Day vs. the undercurrent of skepticism now.Remember? Obama was JFK, RFK and MLK rolled into one. He was a once-in-a-generation superstar. The savior had been born. What happened? “I know that hope may have faded as we grind it out. I know it’s hard to keep faith,” he said yesterday, “with another foreclosure sign hung on the house down the street, and you watch TV and all you see are politicians tearing each other down. “(The Republicans) figured they could ride people’s frustration and anger all the way to the ballot box,” he said. Alas for Obama, it looks like Republicans figured right. Here’s one emotion loose upon the land that Obama neglected to mention: fear. Barack Obama offered up this metaphor yesterday: America’s a car that Republicans drove into a ditch.Then along came Obama and the Democrats. “We put our boots on and went down into the ditch, and we started pushing that car out,” the president told the cheering crowd. “It was hot down there and muddy, but we kept on pushing. And every once in a while we looked up and the Republicans are standing up there tanning themselves, sipping Slurpees, and we say, ‘Hey, are you gonna help?”
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