"America, He's Just Not That Into You"
The title could just as well have been "Obama, the loser president" for all the content of the article.
Obama prefers to rule thru his czars and political fellow travelers. His has disdain for representative government. His inclinations are towards tyranny and despotism.
Interesting article. He is definitely short on people skills and comes across as a cold fish. My personal take is that he thinks he’s better than everybody else and he’d do well to learn you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
He is so cool, that he’s cold and aloof. Remember how uncomfortable he looked at the “acting stupidly” beer summit in the back yard of the White Crib?
i could take “cool and aloof” - his biggest problem is he is misguided and incompetent. a very bad combo.
Makes me wonder what a hurt self involved loner will do after the Country rejects him after 2012?? I hope Republicans are ready to “Hold the Line” until the Republican nominee can get sworn in should they win the election. Obama is going to be one dangerous Lame Duck President!
He’s like many other leftist ideologues — he has no human warmth because has the power of the state and the state, in his mind, is above the people. Despite all the rhetoric about empowering people, he is like drug pusher and has contempt for his dependent junkies. However, instead of pushing actual drugs, liberals push dependency on the Federal government. Once the people are hooked on Federal money, they can be controlled and manipulated. People always wonder why many of the rich are so liberal. It’s all about control. Bread and Circuses has now become SSI and WIC.
Hey, what can one say—Americans cotton to dick-taters.
We thought 0bama was going to be a great, first black president even if he was a democRAT, and all the people would come together in love and harmony
but he is doing just the opposite.
We gave him a chance. He can say anything he wants but the people
are suffering because of him and he can’t keep the wool over our eyes any longer.
Anyway, so what if he's a cold fish? If his policies where any good he wouldn't be sliding down into the 30s. In the end, it all comes down to product and performance, and on both counts, Obama stinks.
this one quote captures the core of the political and public policy problem for this self-regarding jackass:
“The president’s supreme confidence in his intellectual abilities... “
this president is a classic illustration of the Dunning-Krueger effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
Obama isn’t smart enough to recognize how little he actually knows about either politics or policy. He chose his advisors primarily based on ivy league academic pedigree, regardless of their history of advocating disastrous policies (Summers, Romer etc)
Neither Obama or any of his clueless advisors apparently read the Reinhardt and Rogoff book. http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financial/dp/product-description/0691142165
If they had they would have known that the history of economic recovery after a housing crash is many years of slow growth.
Instead, Obama and his advisors bet on a quick recovery, devised a “stimulus” plan and health care plan based on paying off democrat interest groups and burnishing Zeros “historic legacy”.
Even now, in political trouble, the president that “historian” Michael Beschloss imagines is the “most intelligent to every occupy the white house” goes back to old style liberal, populist appeals, even as they drive down business confidence and make the economy worse.
Total fail ! My tagline stays until the 2012 election.
familiarity breeds contempt.
Bottom line - this President wants the perks of the Presidency, including world class treatment, fawning press, fawning world, etc., but wants nothing to do with the day to day work required to make intelligent decisions. His approach is “my way” without taking time to consider that “his way” may not be the best way. He is lazy, arrogant and is really nothing more than a puppet for the mob and the Chicago way. He resents anything remotely resembling work and would rather golf and dine with world leaders than be consigned to the drudgery that is required to make a truly great leader.
But why is there only a comparison with Clinton in this article? George W. loved people and rarely was there a day when we didn't see a photo of him in the middle of a crowd.
Another thing missing from this Obama administration...pics of him in the Oval Office with world leaders.
Seems he disdains spending time with them as well. Bush? Couple times a week, not including phone calls.
change that “n” to an “s” and it’s still accurate
Obama is the loser President
As soon as I read “Is it possible to be America’s most popular politician ...” I could read no more. These people are not thinking lucidly if they are still supporting him.
I agree, “Obama, the loser president” would be ana accurate title.
To a narcissist people are merely things to be used for their purposes.
Obama is cold? Why bother being warm to a wrench or a nail or a square of toilet paper? Obama can be nothing but cold. He is devoid of the ability to be anything else.
(Now, imagine you’re Moochelle or Malia or Sasha....)
Summary of the article: Obama is an arrogant POS who thinks he’s better than anyone else, but in reality he’s an incompetent narcissistic boob.
Take out the names in the article and I’d swear someone would have been writing about Kim Jong il?
If zero has lost the WaPo, he’s lost.
I’m sure they intended this as a “Wake up and smell the election, Mr.President!” piece, but it comes off very differently.
He’s the clueless president. And a Marxist. And since it’s no longer 2008, he’s got big ears, communist parents, radical friends, and got through college on dope.
THERE I SAID IT!