Charles Krauthammer has an interesting piece about Obama coming back to earth:

Let’s be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He’s not been repudiated or even defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.

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.

For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for his acolytes, a crushing disappointment. Obama has become a politician like others. And like other flailing presidents, he will try to salvage a cherished reform — and his own standing — with yet another prime-time speech.

In 1993, President Clinton made some of the same mistakes as Obama. He tried to go too much too quickly, especially on health care and by taxing energy. Obama has gone down the same path so far. But Clinton learned from his mistakes and because a very popular President. It remains to be seen with Obama can get his mojo back (then again, it also remains to be seen whether Obama has really lost it all–only time with tell).