Mort Zuckerman owns the U.S. Daily News and the U.S. News & World Report. He is a regular on MSNBC and the McLaughlin Group. He is a strong Democrat and was a strong supporter of President Obama. He even claimed to have written one of Obama’s political speeches.
Well he sure doesn’t support Obama any more.
Well, I mean, he’s lost so much credibility amongst Americans in terms of his foreign policy. I don’t think we’ve lived with anybody with that kind of record of failure as far as the American public sees it. So I think they’re very nervous about what he’s going to be leading the country into. And frankly, the more he goes in one direction, a lot of other Americans are going to go in a different direction.
It doesn’t get any worse than this. A President can survive almost any scandal, if they are considered up to the job. That is why Bill Clinton survived Monica Lewinsky. But a President cannot survive being considered incompetent, particularly with regard to national security. Obama may stay in office, but even Democrats realize that we cannot rely on him to provide the leadership necessary to navigate these troubled waters. I have no way of predicting where this goes, but it has to go somewhere and it has to happen sooner rather than later.
TDM