Peter Baker slaps down Obama on ‘news cycle’ whine

Baker, not at all unfavorable to President Barack Obama in general, says it’s a bit hypocritical for him to whine about “the news cycle” when he’s the biggest presidential manipulator of it ever. And, it’s starting to backfire:

“I’m really perplexed. It’s unbelievable,” said Karen Hughes, Mr. Bush’s White House counselor. “They’ve taken his greatest political asset — his gifts as a communicator — and totally diluted them. It’s been especially notable in the last couple weeks.”

It does sound like he’s trotting himself out too much, for one thing.

Also, as I’ve said before, on national healthcare, he has ultimately nobody to blame but himself. He’s failed to show leadership on what has so far been an attempt to graft Windows 2000 on top of Windows 98.