What I'm laughing at: The spell is broken

Admittedly, the title idea is sort of borrowed from the blogging style of another SD conservative blogger, Fastidious. Reading the Washington Post Charles Krauthammer piece this morning made my coffee taste all the better.  It's titled; Obama: The Mortal.  Here are my favorite parts:

What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)…

…After a disastrous summer — mistaking his mandate, believing his press, centralizing power, governing left, disdaining citizens for (of all things) organizing — Obama is in trouble.

…But what has occurred — irreversibly — is this: He's become ordinary. The spell is broken. The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic. He's regressed to the mean, tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50 percent.

The spell is broken! The President has lost his magic. He has fallen to earth. Ha. If only we didn't have three more years for him to bumble along. Quick somebody - manufacture a crisis so he can save himself pretending to save us.

The god-man falling to earth refers to Icarus of Greek mythology. From Wikipedia:

Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son (Icarus) not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.

If Reagan was the Teflon President because nothing stuck to him, Obama is more like the wax president considering what the heat of his first real taste of leadership has done to him.