Facing facts: the bloom is off the rose

Since we don't get April showers in Vegas, I'm not anticipating May flowers (but it is beautiful and sunny today!).

It's the end of April and Obama's shine has been roughed up a bit over the past couple of months. He has flaws that will make for tough going in the general election. He isn't some pure essence of change and hope... and he's followed his own, sometimes inconsistent path to reach this point in time. The bloom is off the rose, as they say.

And a Democratic president doesn't seem like as much of a lock now. Who would ever have believed it?

I suspect that some of the distaste for Hillary felt by some Obama supporters is related to the fact that she's held responsible for tarnishing him and, indirectly, defeating our own hopes that things really can be different.

No one likes a party pooper.

But there was a reason that so many of us joined the Obama campaign in the first place. We really do hope and believe that things can be different. We really do see something unique in the message he offers. We really are the ones that we've been waiting for, the ones who can finally stand up and build a world that works better for everyone.

It's just not as easy as Obama was making it look for awhile.

Here's the commentary from MSNBC which got me thinking about all of this over lunch.