much trouble as did president bush befor him. charles krauthammer is not buying it. he joins us from washington. do you think this is just more excuse-making? yeah, it s actually rather pathetic. you didn t hear this when ronald reagan was president. it s the kind of thing that gets cooked up in the mainstreamed me were when you have a failing democratic presidency. this was a ton of this in the late years years of the jimmy carter administration. late january a piece in the the washington post saying how the day of the larger than life presidency is over. one year later we elected a larger than life president in reagan. august 1980, last few months of the carter years, christian science monitor article how they found a sociology gist who said that the office of the presidency was an institutional decline. well, it s not the office, of course, it s the occupant. as you have got an obama, a guy who can t handle the office. look, this is a guy who never ran so much as a candy store i
much trouble as did president bush before him. charles krauthammer is not buying it. he joins us from washington. do you think this is just more excuse-making? yeah, it s actually rather pathetic. you didn t hear this when ronald reagan was president. it s the kind of thing that gets cooked up in the mainstreamed me were when you have a failing democratic presidency. this was a ton of this in the late years years of the jimmy carter administration. late january a piece in the the washington post saying how the day of the larger than life presidency is over. one year later we elected a larger than life president in reagan. august 1980, last few months of the carter years, christian science monitor article how they found a sociology gist who said that the office of the presidency was an institutional decline. well, it s not the office, of course, it s the occupant. as you have got an obama, a guy who can t handle the office. look, this is a guy who never ran so much as a candy store