《華爾街日報》刊登的這篇專欄是對奧巴馬困境精妙的分析。 核心提示：魅力政治只能在第三世界國家使用，美國人不會接受奧巴馬的魅力政治 Obamas Summer of Discontent The politics of charisma is so Third World. Americans were never going to buy into it for long. By FOUAD AJAMI So we are to have a French health-care system without a French tradition of political protest. It is odd that American liberalism, in a veritable state of insurrection during the Bush presidency, now seeks political quiescence. These "townhallers" who have come forth to challenge ObamaCare have been labeled "evil-mongers" (Harry Reid), "un-American" (Nancy Pelosi), agitators and rowdies and worse.

A political class, and a media elite, that glamorized the protest against the Iraq war, that branded the Bush presidency as a reign of usurpation, now wishes to be done with the tumult of political debate. President Barack Obama himself, the community organizer par excellence, is full of lament that the "loudest voices" are running away with the national debate. Liberalism in righteous opposition, liberalism in power: The rules have changed.