Fouad Ajami has a good piece in today’s Wall Street Journal on how the Obama spell has been broken. Though, this sort of analysis has become a staple on the right (I’ve written a couple columns on this theme — here’s one — and I seem to recall Charles Krauthammer and a few others have as well). When the history of the Obama “era” (now in optimistic quotation marks!) is written, it will be interesting to see how many “the spell is broken” pieces Obama racked up. My sense is that as time goes by, the argument will become more and more personalized as individual pundits suddenly discover for themselves what had been obvious to others for a long time.