"The president who muscled through Congress perhaps the most ambitious domestic agenda in a generation finds himself vilified by the right, castigated by the left and abandoned by the middle. He heads into the final stretch of the midterm campaign season facing likely repudiation, with voters preparing to give him a Congress that, even if Democrats maintain control, will almost certainly be less friendly to the president than the one he has spent the last two years mud wrestling.
While proud of his record, Obama has already begun thinking about what went wrong — and what he needs to do to change course for the next two years. "
Peter Baker interviewed President Obama. It is painful to read paragraphs like this one, but it reflects the difficulties he and we face in governing this country. Bob Herbert in today's paper returns to his theme "it's jobs and the economy, stupid". I am more inclined to Obama's self-analysis: we campaign in poetry, govern in prose. But the prose hasn't sold as well as the poetry.
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