Can You Say "Disappointed Hippies?"

With the latest news that the centerpiece of tonight's State of the Union Address is going to be a presidentially-proposed "spending freeze" on all discretionary domestic spending (a classic fiscal-conservative policy position if ever there was one), Barack Obama is getting absolutely murdered today in the lefty blogosphere...and I'm not sure that he doesn't deserve every ounce of criticism. Has any president frittered away more political goodwill and legislative capital in less time than this one? People are p-i-s-s-e-d pissed.

Sample comments from the above link:

---If anybody ever wondered what a theoretical third term for President William Jefferson Clinton would have looked like, I think we’re witnessing it right now. The only difference is that unlike the real Clinton, Obama lacks the 8 years of presidential experience to understand how the other side truly works and he still naively assumes good faith on the part of his opponents.

---Maybe Obama will pull his head out before it’s too late, but at this rate, it certainly appears he’s actively trying to be a one-term president.

---Any real chance at health care reform is dead, Obama has embraced indefinite detention w/o trial and warrantless surveillance, half his “stimulus” bill was tax cuts, he’s leading the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, he’s coddling the bankers, etc. Now he’s going to freeze spending? Really? At this point we’ve basically elected John McCain

---God, I wish Hillary Clinton was the President.

---You guys are just now figuring out what an empty suit Obama is???? He, like Clinton is another chameleon who can make whatever audience is listening that he is just like them. He is going to do a lot of damage before he is replaced. The good news is it looks like that damage is going to be limited by the coming election storm in November. I can hardly wait.

---The politics of it is what I don’t get. I’ve accepted that he’s going to be a massive disappointment as President, other than keeping us from launching nuclear weapons at Iran and/or North Korea like McCain would have. What I can’t quite figure out is how he can be so profoundly dedicated to turning control of the country back to the Republicans. It doesn’t make any sense at all, no matter how you look at it.