Unengaged

clipped from www.ocregister.com To return to Cohen's question: "Who is this guy? What are his core beliefs?" Well, he's a guy who was wafted ever upward – from the Harvard Law Review to state legislator to United States senator – without ever lingering long enough to accomplish anything. "Who is this guy?" Well, when a guy becomes a credible presidential candidate by his mid-40s with no accomplishments other than a couple of memoirs, he evidently has an extraordinary talent for self-promotion, if nothing else. "What are his core beliefs?" It would seem likely that his core belief is in himself. It's the "nothing else" that the likes of Cohen are belatedly noticing. Did all those hopeychangers realize that Obama's war would be run by Bush's defense secretary and Bush's general? Hey, never mind: the Moveon.org folks have quietly removed their celebrated "General Betray-us" ad from their website. It took the oil spill to alert Americans to the unengaged president.