Simon Heffer of the UK’s Daily Telegraph writes:

The shock about coming to America after an absence of four months is how, in that time, respect for and confidence in President Obama has slumped. It wasn’t good in March; now the effect of what one blogger has called his apparent “impotence” has taken hold.

After listening to many of the things that have gone wrong, Heffer says, “This immediate proof of mismanagement adds to the cumulative feeling on so many other fronts that Mr Obama and his team simply don’t understand governance.” He ends his column by saying what others have said before: “In that ecstatic dawn in November 2008, the Democrats would not have thought that things could turn out like this.”

No, they wouldn’t have. But they should have. It turns out that former community organizers don’t necessarily make for successful presidents.

Who knew?