Waking up the morning after---or falling out of love

Remember Chris Matthews? He's the MSNBC host who said he got a thrill up his leg listening to Obama. He was among the many mainstream journalists who were gaga over this guy who was going to bring hopenchange to America.

Well, Matthews is one of many blindly infatuated Obama lovers who has awakened with a broken heart and outraged dismay that his knight in shining armor is not who he purported himself to be, but a peddler of cheap sweet nothings. He is comparing Obama's handling of the Gulf oil well blow out not to Katrina, but to the Iran hostage crisis.

Watch this video (h/t The Anchoress), who writes:

In all seriousness–because this is a very serious situation–it seems that Chris Matthews’ heart is breaking, too:

Allahpundit writes of Matthews:

But now that I’ve watched and seen the hurt in his eyes when he says “idiotic cerebral meritocracy,” I fear something’s died here that can never be rekindled.

Matthews’ whole remark was:

“. . . this idiotic cerebral meritocracy has got to step aside and let the people who do things take over…”

And that is the problem in a nutshell. Our government is top-heavy with people who have never “done” anything.

The Obama administration is loaded down with academics and lawyers who have spent their lives theorizing about things like economics, markets, social order and crisis management–and criticizing methods with which they disagree–but who have little practical experience in doing.

Obama had less experience in doing anything or running anything than Sarah Palin. Think about that.