Until recently, if you were listing the strengths of Barack Obama and his administration, you would have emphasised the president's calm, controlled demeanour and the competence of the people around him – a welcome contrast, in both respects, to the previous administration. In the blink of an eye, this has turned upside-down. Friends and foes are accusing Mr Obama's White House of multi-dimensional bungling and are holding the president's temperament up to ridicule.
就在不久前,如果讓你列舉美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)及其政府的優點,你還會強調他的冷靜、舉止剋制、及其領導班子的能力——無論從哪方面講,都比前任政府強多了。可轉眼間,情況就徹底顛倒了過來。無論敵友,都在指責歐巴馬政府把各個層面的問題都搞得一團糟,對他的脾性也大加嘲諷。
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