Peter Wehner:
President Obama’s tanking approval rating in newly released polls shows Americans are tired of his whining, according to some experts, who also see a fighting chance for Republicans to rack up coast-to-coast victories in the 2014 midterm congressional races.
“We think of presidents as being morale leaders … and he goes out and complains,” according to Richard Benedetto, a retired White House correspondent and a journalism professor at American University. “He complains about the fact that he doesn’t get enough cooperation from the other side. ‘It’s not my fault, it’s the Republicans’ fault.’ And that message gets old for the American public. … It’s not a good sign for Democrats in Congress going into next year.”
No, it’s not. And here’s one of the many challenges facing Mr. Obama: Can he alter the patterns of a presidency? I ask because the president is a chronic whiner, a habitual complainer and excuse-maker. He relied on blame shifting for his entire first term, and I suspect it’s not merely a tactic for Obama. It is how he’s been conditioned, how he views the world and his place in it. He believes deep in his bones that every setback he encounters is due to outside forces. And so he has laid the blame for his failures on his predecessor, the congressional GOP, the Tea Party, conservative talk radio hosts, millionaires and billionaires, Wall Street, Japanese tsunamis, the Arab Spring, Fox News, and more. Those excuses no longer work–and because they don’t, one of the main political arrows has been removed from the Obama quiver.
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All Obama was ever good at was pitting groups against each other. He knows nothing else.
Before becoming president, Obama had one positive thing on his resume: he had delivered (maybe even written in part) one great speech at the DNC convention.
Since then he has outsourced his speech writing to well-paid drunks.
His sing-song monotone reading off those screens puts even his fans to sleep.
His double and sometimes triple teleprompter trick is proof he can’t string along a whole thought without help.
This is a far cry from men who speak without notes or with scant notes.
He probably doesn’t even know how often the words out in his mouth are logic fallacies like the straw man, the hasty generalization, the false dilemma, etc.
He just reads what is written.
There are some willing to speak about how he is behind the scenes.
He lacks life, is listless, unfocused, dull, willing to defer to Valerie or others, unconcerned, busy with his Blackberry.
He can suddenly ”turn on the charm, the vitality,” but he can’t make it seem sincere.
Obama admits doing mind-dulling drugs, some of them addictive.
Has he really ever quit all of them?
He ”golfs” for hours on end every week, very secretively.
JFKennedy was a man my parents disagreed with politically, but they recognized his talent with speechmaking.
IF Obama was a great speechmaker, I’d admit it.
He did do ONE speech very well.
But since he’s been so bad since, I wonder who wrote it.
@Nanny G: Nanny, he’s not that good. I guess I missed his ‘good’ speech, but I’m quite sure he didn’t say anything I wanted to hear. It’s his constant complaining and whining and blaming others for his utter failures that I can’t stand. Now he’s got 4 US military persons being held in Libya. What will he do about it? Stutter and stammer and say uh, you know, uh whatever’s written on his teleprompter screen. We won’t be anxious to hear it. Another BenGhazi?
Democrats elected the boy who cries wolf for president. Will the villagers of America realize the real danger this con artist is putting the flock in, before the wolves of the world converge?
“All Obama was ever good at was pitting groups against each other. He knows nothing else.”
True, and the result is questionable… how many people were seriously assaulted or murdered because of this…
I think Americans are tired of Obama aka Ofraud PERIOD.