Lots on this subject. Some US conservative thoughts.

Newt Gingrich says President Obama is a huge success, in his own terms at least:

In just 100 days, President Obama has been devastatingly effective in moving forward swiftly the most radical, government-expanding agenda in American history.

At home, in everything from his economic policy to his energy policy to his just-announced science policy, President Obama has successfully moved the country from a traditional American model of entrepreneurship and private initiative to a European model of regulation and government control.

Phew. Who needed all that pushy American free enterprise stuff anyway?

And here is Dick Morris on Obama’s Not So Stealthy Socialism.

Obama on the Holocaust – post-modern waffling which encourages the enemies of freedom?

And Obama the Orator – or not? Watch the video of the President just grinding to a painful halt when the teleprompter goes awry.

That last one reminded me of an anecdote about David Blunkett our former blind Home Secretary. He was (I was told by someone in his office) given a fancy new gizmo made in Sweden which allowed him to read his speeches with his fingers in Braille – a sort of teleprompter for blind politicians and others making public presentations.

Mr Blunkett walked on to the stage to begin his first speech using this thing and started to feel the letters with his fingers. He quickly grasped that somehow the device had not been configured properly and the text was in Swedish, not English.

So he improvised as he knew the subject, and no-one in the audience was ever the wiser.

So President Obama is not (yet?) perfect in every way.

But he has Momentum. The key to political success, howsoever defined.

Unlike our Prime Minister whose sense of direction these days is … a tad less certain?