…he’s lost his mojo: The rock star of 2008 has become just another workaday politician. The worse news is, this is all he’s got.
So fasten your seat belts, America — it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Especially if you’re unemployed — because help is most definitely not on the way.
What else to make of Obama’s three-day “jobs” barnstorm through the Midwest — the Magical Misery Tour, as GOP hopeful Mitt Romney dubbed it? And now comes the annual Martha’s Vineyard vacation: The president will spend the next 10 days holed up at a tony, 28-acre elite playground called the Blue Heron Farm as the country plummets toward a double-dip recession.
Does nobody in the White House realize how poorly this act is playing?
Hitting three Midwest communities in two sleek, specially outfitted, Canadian-made million-dollar campaign buses, the president came off like a visiting Marie Antoinette, out among the besieged peasantry for a few days to preach his newfound religion of jobs.
Then Obama got caught in a spirited discussion — one that could only diminish him — with a truculent private citizen, Ryan Rhodes, who confronted him in an Iowa rope line to ask whether veep Joe Biden had called Tea Partiers “terrorists.”
Why think it will help to promise yet another speech on the economy — when Obama has already been a constant, hectoring presence on the airwaves for the past month, demanding more spending and higher taxes on the “rich”?
Same for the the transparently political, utterly preposterous notion of a new Cabinet-level Department of Jobs to solve the nation’s employment woes: Just what the country needs, another expensive, useless and quickly metastasizing bureaucratic monstrosity.
With 16 months — at least — left in the Obama presidency, the law of diminishing returns has kicked in hard. The president’s approval rating stands at 39 percent in one major poll, and even the Congressional Black Caucus is starting to bail on him. “We’re supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired,” Rep. Maxine Waters told a Detroit audience Tuesday.
It is said that “Each person rises to their own level of mediocrity”. I guess this where Obama IS as a person and as a “president”. Talk will get you so far, and having talented “handlers” will somewhat suffice for inexperience, but the talking is getting old and the “puppeteers’ have gone west. He has an agenda instead of leadership and he has narcissim to replace confidence. It is becoming pitiful because this dirty “reign” is falling upon the people of America!
I really dont care if anyone sees my name or email, j am so sick and tired of this socialist goverment, the moron we have in office discussed me beyond words. I did not vote for the man i just felt he was a liar. I voted for McCain i’m not prejudice at all, in fact i’m looking at Cain right now, i like some of his policys. But i’m scared to death that the idiot could get in for another 4 yrs. I ‘m a 22yr. retired combat vet. vietnam era i dont really know who you people are, but if there is anything you can do to help get him out Thank you semperfi