Article: It's a cruel world on Barack Obama.(NATION)(PRUDEN ON POLITICS)(Column)

Byline: Wesley Pruden, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The cruel world is closing in on Barack Obama. Springfield was never like this. The president can only look back with yearning for the days when he was the star of the state legislature, where a legislator's only concern is who's going to pick up the tab for drinks and supper.

His dithering time in the big new world is limited by events, which occur to a timetable that mere man, even a minor-league messiah, cannot control.

The White House insists that the president is hard at work on what to do about Afghanistan, and whether to send more troops to fuel a surge like the surge that prevented a collapse ...

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