Charles Krauthammer’s column in  today’s The Washington Post is a fascinating look at the rise and fall of Barack Obama.  Obama is by no means out of the race, but there is an old expression, ‘it’s not where you are–it’s the direction in which you are moving’, at this moment it looks like Obama’s momentum is moving in the wrong direction.  The only thing I would add to Charles Krauthammer’s comments is that if the media builds you up, but you have no internal foundation, the building will not stand.  Obama may have been a successful community organizer, but if you look at the community he organized, it is in worse shape now than it was before he started.