The Lights are Fading....

Salon.com is one of those far-left websites like moveon.org or mediamatters.org. So, when one of it's liberal contributors begins to recognize the recklessness of the Obama administration, one has to wonder if the lights are beginning to fade.

Camille Paglia in Salon.com, an Obama supporter and a liberal writer makes some interesting observations in her piece "Heads should Roll."

Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons -- his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship.

Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama's first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection. (Michelle, please use those fabulous toned arms to butt some heads!)

First it was that chaotic pig rut of a stimulus package, which let House Democrats throw a thousand crazy kitchen sinks into what should have been a focused blueprint for economic recovery. Then it was the stunt of unnerving Wall Street by sending out a shrill duo of slick geeks (Timothy Geithner and Peter Orszag) as the administration's weirdly adolescent spokesmen on economics. Who could ever have confidence in that sorry pair?

And then there was the fiasco of the ham-handed White House reception for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, which was evidently lacking the most basic elements of ceremony and protocol. Don't they read the "Iliad" anymore in the Ivy League? Check that out for the all-important ritual of gift giving, which has cemented alliances around the world for 5,000 years

Of course, but then she goes on to say:

President Obama -- in whom I still have great hope and confidence -- has been ill-served by his advisors and staff. Yes, they have all been blindsided and overwhelmed by the crushing demands of the presidency. But I continue to believe in citizen presidents, who must learn by doing, even in a perilous age of terrorism

It will probably take a bit more convincing, but sooner or later some of the more intelligent liberals (and there are some) might also actually recognize that Obama is nothing more that a radical neophyte whose only interest is to alter the United States to his make-believe utopian world. Or, is that hoping for too much? Obama must be stopped.