I never gave a thought about his handlers before your remark, but indeed they must have their hands full right about now.
Kind of makes you think twice about the purpose of Michelle’s trip to Spain and the meetings she attended. he may not have been stable enough to do them himself and his people probably see the deterioration.
It is no wonder that he has had the least amount of press conferences than any president in recent history. That would be pressure that was not controlled. He would have to answer questions off the cuff and without a teleprompter. God knows if he got called on something what he would say.
What a nightmare for his staff eh?
Wow—you have a really nice blog! (I couldn’t resist paying it a visit; I plan to go back! There’s a lot of good stuff there. :) You made me glad I don’t have Rush-24-7; if I had the option of watching as well as listening, my productivity would plummet. ;)
Anyway, back to the issue of Obama’s instability and his handlers’ nightmare. You put your finger on it when it comes to press conferences. As the state of the union worsens, even the sycophant press is going to be obliged to ask a semi-serious question once in a while. This really is the handlers’ nightmare, because malignant narcissists don’t handle any form of criticism well on a good day. The longer Obama is ‘trapped’ in a job he’s not enjoying nearly as much as he anticipated, the fewer good days he’ll have. The things he could blurt out on a bad day must keep the powers behind the throne awake at night.
If you look at Obama’s work history, you see that not only did he rarely apply himself: he never stayed in any one position more than a couple of years. He has a harder time conforming to any kind of expectation and/or constraint than even the average narcissist. This guy is getting antsier by the day, and you can see it in his increasingly reckless pursuit of diversion. His craving for five hr golf outings, for instance, has long gone past the point of anything that could be considered semi-normal for a POTUS.
Things can only get worse from here. Obama is destroying the economy, and that alone will keep his poll numbers sinking. The lower they go, the more erratically this starving (for wholesale adulation) narcissist will behave. What a mess!