Luster Fading From the Obama Brand

The White House announced it will have no announcements regarding the elections until sometime later, if ever. 

Democrats have lost both Governor races, New Jersey and Virginia, to Republican challengers.  Barack Obama campaigned in both states, but a lot more in New Jersey.  These losses, especially New Jersey are strong indications that the Obama star rocket, propelled entirely by emotion and deception, has begun to lose altitude.

The excuses and recriminations will dominate the political-media establishment  for the rest of the week.  We’re likely to be told that Corzine’s campaign was too inept for even The One to pull out of the muck.  Obama supporters have been saying that about Craigh Deeds’ campaign in Virginia since the polls began to indicate it was a lost cause.

Corzine and Deeds both tried to link their Republican opponents with President George W. Bush.  But it has been five years since Bush was a candidate, one year since Obama won the Presidency, and more than ten months since he was sworn in.  It’s just too late for the old blame-Bush gambit to impress voters.

Expect the passion to fade from the Obama agenda of government run health care, government imposed energy shortages, gargantuan deficits and tax hikes in the midst of a severe recession.