Ajami Article Stirs Uproar About Obama's Rapid Plunge in Polls

High-Flying Obama Singed by the Klieg Lights

Fouad Ajami follows up his article last week with an interesting five-minute interview by Wall Street Journal reporters.

Watch the YouTube interview, highlighted by the WSJ female reporter's wonder at the vitriolic hatred some mentally-challenged Democrats vented at Fouad, a gentle man whose giant mind is greater than any Dem concerned with foreign policy. In the years I knew Fouad, he always surprised me with the compassionate breadth of his POV concerning other cultures, which he combined with a straightforward assessment of these cultures' drawbacks and shortcomings. Born of a Shi'ite family in South Lebanon, Fouad has a deep understanding of the Sunni/Shi'a divide and his Persian heritage serves him well in assessing Iran's role in the Middle East as well.

Another interesting comment is Fouad's observation that it was a big mistake for Obama to accept the Nobel Peace Prize from a board of five Norwegian women [well, four women and a gender-confused whomever] after zero accomplishments in the US foreign policy area. This demonstrated that, unlike JFK, another wildly popular POTUS whose candidacy subsumed the hopes and dreams of many Americans, Obama may have the dangerous inclination to believe his own hyped-up reviews.

But the video of Fouad's Q&A reveals much about how a very wise and gifted man sees the Obama presidency as teetering on the brink of a plunge into one-term Carterhood.