The AP is catching up with us “wingnut” bloggers, noticing the difference between Obama’s words and his actions.

“WASHINGTON – Barack Obama’s optimistic campaign rhetoric has crashed headlong into the stark reality of governing.

In office two months, he has backpedaled on an array of issues, gingerly shifting positions as circumstances dictate while ducking for political cover to avoid undercutting his credibility and authority. That’s happened on the Iraq troop withdrawal timeline, on lobbyists in his administration and on money for lawmakers’ pet projects.

“Change doesn’t happen overnight,” Obama said at a town-hall style event in California on Thursday, seeming to acknowledge the difficulty in translating campaign pledges into actual policy. Asked by a campaign volunteer how his supporters can be most effective in helping him bring the sweeping change he promised, Obama said: “Patience.”

It’s a gimme that campaign promises and realty often clash no matter who gets the job. But Obama’s reversals and backpeddling are becoming stuff of legend. This is what I and others talked about during the primaries and campaign. The guy was all talk but hadn’t done a thing in his past to give those words any weight.

Now we know that instead of being the great speaker and orator, he has no greater speaking skills that a TV news-reading anchorman. Instead of the messiah, America got a showman, a salesman. All talk and no action and completely in over his head just when America could afford it least.