A Nation Ungovernable?

Here we go again. A commentary on what has gone wrong during the first year of a presidency.Yes, we have had presidents that seem to have had the political wand to make everything smooth, but I feel it is too early to judge the political saavy of a man who has his heart in the right place in wanting to fix the crumbling mess of years past. Yes, his cap-and-trade and health care reform may be in ruins, but thankfully, he is not one to back down. I do agree with the author, Charles Krauthammer ( who happens to be an American Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and political commentator), when he conveys "the Democrats failed because they tried to impose a left-wing agenda on a center-right country". It was not the complex bureaucratic structure of our government that failed to accept the initiatives put before them but Americans that are shaking in their boots by the economic changes and are in fear of expanding debt, either their own in the way of taxes, or nationally. For the ones who want to blame the system for Obama's struggle this first year, the author does a great job in explaining that the president needs to win over the people, as other presidents have done, as a way to ensure acceptance of his initiatives.