Mission Not Accomplished…. But What are the Consequences?

David suggests in his piece earlier this morning, the Mainstream media will take the biggest damage the Denmark Disaster. Frankly, I tend to agree at least for the initial part. . That would seem to render the disagreement between us less than David makes it. I think also, though, that there will be damage to Obama, but indirectly.

Allow a little ” inside baseball” -like background on the discussion between David and myself.  In a BitsBlog internal memo, I proposed the following:

(What of)… the idea that both the president and the first lady went to Copenhagen hoping to sell Chicago to the IOC on the force of their personalities and their personal popularity…

Question; is it a sign of that the Obama’s popularity is on the wane in the rest of the world, that their overt (And very expensive) sales attempt didn’t work? Clearly, the honeymoon is over here in the states as far as Obama and his popularity are concerned.

Is the IOC vote on Chicago (what was it, 17 of 94 delegates?  ) an indication that his popularity is done in the remainder of the world, as well?

I suspect and suppose the answer to that question is yes, and then in that context, it must be said that Obama himself will probably take the largest hit in terms of trust and popularity , and in fact already has taken such a hit, else the Denmark Disaster would never have occurred as such.

Understand me clearly, here… when I proposed the question, what I was thinking was not so much the MSM or domestic audiences, directly, but first, the rest of the world , who we are supposed to think are well- represented within the IOC.  Europeans, particularly.   Clearly what such people think is supposed to be important to us in the eyes of the domestic  left. You will recall, for example, the multiple visits to European capitals during the presidential campaign. Those appearances were certainly designed for the consumption of domestic, not European, audiences. “The rest of the world loves him, therefore America’s prestige will rise in the world if we elect him “was the message.

In light of what happened in Copenhagen the other day, it seems reasonable to ask if that campaign meme isn’t now disproven.

We can give some way to this also by way of how the left let up to suggest Chicago was all Bush’s fault came up so very quickly …from Roland Burris for example.. The comment was that Bush had ruined our standing in the world, supposedly.  Burris seems to me on a very short leash of late, and so either this comment from him was way out of the norm, or he’s speaking as instructed.  You know they’re on the ropes when they start dishing out blame to Bush… such response is the last of a very short list of things and people to blame for Democrat failures.

Here’s where that indirect damage comes into play;

Clearly, the Democrats know full well that the image is out there now among the Europeans, and supporters in Chicago… Obama wasn’t able to pull this one out, even with all the media- driven  hype. Since we know that much of the Obama mystique here in the states is based on what the remainder of the world supposedly thinks of us, this turn-back of his attempts will be taken as a token of Obama and his honeymoon being over, in the capitals of the world.  Since so much of his domestic mystique is based on that now failing image, that his domestic popularity cannot help but be damaged by it, regardless of the kind of spin that the mainstream media puts on things.

David is quite correct, when he says that the  MSM will take a huge credibility hit over this one.  But that mainstream media credibility hit would not happen unless Obama was taking it on the chin, first. After all, Obama is the reason for the media spin in the first place. And the thing is, I doubt there’s a way any spin the MSM can put up will overcome this image loss for Obama.