Posted on 11/07/2009 11:16:36 AM PST by Schnucki
Barack Obama's reaction to bad news is to play it so cool that Americans yearn for a bit more drama - and some even for his predecessor, writes Toby Harnden in Washington.
During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush.
A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.
He has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war?
In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."
When Mr Bush's Republicans were defeated in the 2006 mid-term elections, it was the President himself who stepped up and declared that his party had received "a thumpin'". The Democratic defeats on Tuesday were not on anything like the same scale but Mr Obama acted as if nothing at all had happened.
Mr Obama had campaigned for Jon Corzine, New Jersey's Democratic governor, five times, twice just last Sunday. But when Mr Corzine lost by four points in a state Mr Obama won by 15 last year - a 19-point swing to Republicans - White House aides just shrugged.
In Virginia, which Mr Obama won by six points last year, prompting Democrats to declare an historic political realignment in
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touche.
He is certifiable.
We have a stone cold souless, narcissistic, hating Prz.
The lenghts he will go to inflict pain on the American people is boundless.
Obama is still learning how to properly salute, he has that pesky problem with the middle finger, you know. I am sure he is just judiciously weighing the situation in order not to jump to any hasty conclusions. Getting out on the links can make the mind so much clearer on the important issues so I expect that he will be there for the dead and wounded just after he makes his decision on Afghanistan, within mere weeks according to Axelrod. Papa Oscar Sierra.
Wow, go Bush. I miss you too!
He’s medicated
He and Laura quietly visited the wounded at Ft. Hood last night.
I miss them BOTH. We have lost so much in such a short time!
Well, chalk one up for the One other Worlders.
....for the other One Worlders, I mrant to say.
Co-employees of teh Saudi Kingdom and Islam. There agents are detatched.
What happened at Fort Hood shows there is no stealth.
Sure I miss President Bush atleast he was a man. A man the military could trust. Someday all of these so called progressives will miss the America they have destroyed!
IL DOUCHE!
I see the Obamessiahites have been alerted and are now posting long winded comments on the telegraph site to bury any criticism of him. I wonder if they are paid by SEIU dues, Acorn $$, or National Endowment for the Arts grants.
blcccchhh.
I really believe when history is written regarding GWB’s Presidency, we will see how the WOT forced him into compromising a lot of his original agenda. It would not surprise me in the least that the Dems held it over his head to get their way on many things.
PUSS.
Flame away. I know who's full of shit and who isn't.
I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I kinda lean towards a Heinlein approach, a la Starship Troopers, of making military service a citizenship requirement.
You’re not going to get any flack from me.
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