The Washington Times picks up on RWB’s theme of the malaise that President Obama has been spreading with his incessant predictions about things getting worse: ‘Doom’ talk scored as ‘not presidential’

While President Bush was accused shortly after taking office in 2001 of “talking down the economy” – and for saying the economy was “slowing down” – Mr. Obama is using ever-heightening hyperbole to hammer home his message. But the strategy brings great risk for the “Yes, We Can” man, who just three weeks ago told America in his inaugural address that despite “a sapping of confidence across our land,” his election meant Americans had “chosen hope over fear.”

“Mr. Hope has to be careful not to become Dr. Doom,” said Frank Luntz, a political consultant and author of the book “Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear.”

“The danger for him is using the Jimmy Carter malaise rhetoric, particularly for Mr. Obama, who was elected because people thought he was the solution. There’s only so much negativity they will tolerate from him before they will feel betrayed,” Mr. Luntz said.

Brad Blakeman, a senior aide to Mr. Bush from 2001 to 2004, said the new president’s language is immature.

“It’s not presidential. An American leader needs to be hopeful and optimistic – and truthful. Everything he says is parsed; everything he says is searched for deep meaning. When he goes to ‘DefCon 5′ on the economy and says that we’re on the brink of catastrophe, it’s absolutely insane.”

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Plenty has been said in praise of Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who saved 155 lives when he successfully landed the airbus he was piloting in the Hudson river, and very rightly so. Today he and his crew have been awarded keys to the city by New York’s mayor. One thing this episode certainly highlights, as Mrs. RWB wisely observed while watching some of the recent TV interviews with the crew (none of whom could be described as young), is the irreplaceable value of experience in a crisis.

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Seven years since the murder of Daniel Pearl, and now an innocent Polish hostage is decapitated on videotape by jihadists in Pakistan.

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