Posted on 03/22/2009 6:03:04 AM PDT by Belle22
"Barack Obama's gaffe mocking the disabled by comparing his (inept but improving) 10 pin bowling skills to the 'special Olympics' illustrates the problem he now has in communicating with the American people.
Obama seems incapable of balancing the need to be a national leader and his childish desire to retain his image as the uber cool dude he so clearly believes that he is.
The fact that he felt the need to go on Jay Leno at all to sell his stimulus plan, budget and banking bailouts shows that he has communications issues. The public are not buying his spending splurge, or his administration's confused attempt to kill off executive bonuses.
Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei at Politico wrote a characteristically insightful piece on Thursday that began: 'Of all the pitfalls Barack Obama might face in the presidency, here is one not many people predicted: He is struggling as a public communicator.'...
They point out:
The discipline and strategic focus of the campaign have yet to move into the White House. The story of the day often catches the president flat-footed or on the defensive - and regularly undercut by fellow Democrats....
They condemn Obama's 'mixed messages' on the economy, alternating gloom and hope, and what to me is the most damaging fact that he is 'too cool for his own good':
Even when Obama went before the cameras to express outrage at the AIG bonuses, he seemed to nod to the contrived nature of it. During an East Room event, when Obama coughed, he drew laughter by departing from the teleprompter to crack: 'Excuse me, I'm choked up with anger here.'
Obama has never run anything other than his presidential campaign. He doesn't know the difference between governing and campaigning and he's sticking with what he knows."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I’m guessing dissin’ Gordon Brown was not such a good idea.
If Politico hadn't drunk the Bammy koolaid they would have seen what we all knew from the outset-- that the "eloquence" of Mr Teleprompter was a contrived, media-fed bill of goods.
OMG, I hadn't even heard about that one.
“Tongue-tied”? But, but...I thought he was supposed to be articulate! And clean!
That's because he's really a community organizer.
Pretty SAD state of Affairs, when the US public have to go to a UK Newspaper (who never really was a “friend” of the US), to get news about our Newly Annointed FUHRER/MESSIAH
THANK you UK PRESS, for giving us American people the news we can’t get at home.
Hah!
Good one.
LOL!
BTTT
Really? All voters had to do was examine his empty record to know this. Now we're stuck with a clueless and inexperienced community organizer in a near depression.
He couldn’t run a Dairy Queen.
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