Has Obama lost his 'golden touch'?

After a string of missteps, including alleged attempts to use job offers to get two candidates to back out of divisive primaries, are President Obama's political skills starting to fail him?

Barack Obama.
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Barack Obama has piled up an impressive stack of political accomplishments over the past two years — defeating Hillary Clinton to take the Democratic presidential nomination, crushing John McCain in the presidential election, and winning bruising battles in Congress over the economic stimulus, health care, and financial reform. But the Obama administration has made a series of missteps recently — including controversial efforts to coax candidates Joe Sestak and Andrew Romanoff to drop out of potentially divisive Democratic Senate primaries — that has Politico asking whether Obama has lost his "golden touch." Well, has he? (Watch a Fox report about Obama's latest appointees' difficulties)

Yes, Obama's incompetence is shining through: Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has essentially admitted that the White House offered Andrew Romanoff a job to end his campaign, says Ed Morrissey in Hot Air. This scandal, coming on the heels of the Sestak case, makes it impossible for the lapdogs in the mainstream media to continue ignoring "the growing sense that this administration is incompetent."

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