Son of Soros Toady Slams Obama

With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. -Mark Halperin

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Mark Halperin is senior political analyst for Time. What you’ve not heard in the media is that Mark Halperin is also the red diaper brat son of Morton Halperin, currently senior advisor to the Open Society Institute (OSI). Halperin is also author of the largely unsourced and cliché ridden, Game Change. His dad, Morton, works for George Soros and was once called “dangerous” by Strom Thurmond when the senior Halperin was nominated to shape national security policy and have access to America’s most highly classified military secrets. Junior has his own list of journalistic misdeeds, most notably helping Bill Clinton get elected while masquerading as a journalist. As ABC’s White House reporter, the younger Halperin scored a promotion to Political Director of ABC news just as his brother won a four year gig as a Clinton speechwriter. Cynical types could infer that his dad’s position as a high level advisor for Clinton was a factor. Just like his dad’s boss, the junior Halperin has figured out that the Obama presidency is falling something short of magnificent. He does lapse, however, still clinging to the demented delusion that Obama saved the country from economic Armageddon.

He did inherit a lot of problems from the Bush Administration. He did act quickly in the initial weeks of his Administration to stave off a worldwide depression.

Halperin junior is, apparently, no better at arithmetic than his idol, claiming that Obama’s efforts at job creation have been obstructed by Republicans. No explanation was proffered as to how that is mathematically possible. This is a bit of a departure from Game Change in which we are expected to believe that everyone involved in the 2008 campaign who was not part of Team O is crazy, incompetent, or both. There is the occasional nugget of truth: “Financial economics was hardly an area of expertise for Obama . . ..” (Pg. 378). So smitten were Halperin and co-author John Heilemann, the book is remarkably free of criticism of Obama other than a few altogether believable passages about his incessant bellyaching about how “hard” it is to run for leader of the free world. Halperin resentfully realizes that the Democrats are going to take a nasty drubbing in November.

But before then, Republicans are almost certainly going to demonstrate that you can beat something with nothing, especially when Americans seem to think that the Obama Administration hasn't much to offer either, except more of the same that isn't working.

So beguiled remains the junior Halperin, he is actually looking forward to Obama’s next State of the Union, which will surely be a magical time when the nation can get back to unicorn breeding.

The President will get a chance, in his State of the Union address and in his budget proposal, to show he is turning the page on the political horrors of 2010 for his party and the nation.