Dana Milbank: The most powerful man on Earth?

OUCH!

Marathon Pundit refers to Milbank of the Washington Post as liberal supporter. Here's his recent column:

When he began his speech (and as cable news channels displayed for viewers), the Dow Jones industrials stood at 11,035. As he talked, the average fell below 11,000 for the first time in nine months, en route to a 635-point drop for the day, the worst since the 2008 crash.

It’s not exactly fair to blame Obama for the rout: Almost certainly, the markets ignored him. And that’s the problem: The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency.

The economy crawls, the credit rating falls, the markets plunge, and a helicopter packed with U.S. special forces goes down in Afghanistan. Two thirds of Americans say the country is on the wrong track (and that was before the market swooned), Obama’s approval rating is 43 percent, and activists on his own side are calling him weak.

Yet Obama plods along, raising gobs of cash for his reelection bid — he was scheduled to speak at two DNC fundraisers Monday night — and varying little the words he reads from the teleprompter. He seemed detached even from those words Monday as he pivoted his head from side to side, proclaiming that “our problems is not confidence in our credit” and turning his bipartisan fiscal commission into a “biparticle.”

And what do you know Instapundit has this column and other links of interest related to Milbanks article!

Marathon Pundit says that Obama has lost another liberal supporter. Yes I'm aware he has his critics on the left, a group I consider his natural constituency. Then Instapundit says that the MSM who was solidly behind Obama in 2008 is starting to wane on him now!