Barack's heel.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Barack Obama - Brief article

"Perhaps [Obama] thought he was elevated to pass healthcare--they loved it in Iowa!--but in fact ir was the economic crisis that got him elected, is now our national preoccupation, and will be the solution of which (or lack of one) that determines whether he's re-elected," notes Steven Stark in the Boston Phoenix.

Tough words, but I fear they are true. Stark got at something else in the same column that troubles me. It is that Obama has "never run anything before." He's gifted at inspiring us with his rhetoric but, Stark argues, "the hard, nitty-gritty labor of figuring out how government can actually work better ... seems to hold no appeal...