It's hard to argue with Simon Schama on this one. This is from someone who was an early, die-hard supporter of Obama. The loss of mission and vision is increasingly noticeable beyond the border.
At a debate on Obama's America, the historian Simon Schama had some advice for the US president. "He is really hopeless, disastrous, feeble at telling the American story. One example would be in the way the right wing has managed to represent bank regulation as bank bailout. Obama has been somewhat soft and soggy. American politics ought to be about the noble clash of ideas, but can also be about soggy mud wrestling. Obama seems reluctant to take up the knuckle dusters … He has failed to come up to scratch on what happens next to the great American democratic experiment. I really think he should fire his chief advisers, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel."
