„I personally think Obama has been doing a good job, all things considered. The economy is still depressing, but that’s an improvement over mind-bendingly terrifying. The rest of the world likes us better, and whenever the president goes overseas he seems to be able to nudge the other countries toward a little progress on some issue on which they had been hopelessly stuck.
And health care reform. Extremely big deal. Really could pass. Eventually.
No matter how difficult the issue, Obama has been sensible, deliberative. Just look at Dick Cheney swooping around like a dementor from Harry Potter, and you have to appreciate how much things have improved.
But Lord, is it good to bid farewell to 2009.
And imagine how Obama must feel. Every problem is a long, grueling slog. Even in the last minutes of the year, he was stuck trying to get out of the hole that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had dug when she used the fatal phrase ,the system worked‘ after the failed plane bombing in Detroit.“
Kolumnistin GAIL COLLINS am 30. Dezember in der Online-Ausgabe der „New York Times“.
