Mr. Spock in James' world.
Posted on 11/05/2014 7:20:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The president’s skill set didn’t match up well with an election that prized extremes over nuance. He paid the price.
As his party lost seats in epic fashion Tuesday in both the House and Senate, the world's most famous Democrat sat on the sidelines—like a player ejected early from a championship game.
But while there will be second-guessing, teeth-gnashing, and blame flying in the wake of the results, the plain truth is that President Obama was never the kind of man who could ride to his party's rescue in a midterm cycle like this. As he's made clear over the past six years, his political style isn't one suited to hot-blooded rhetoric and emotional appeals. He prefers, instead, deliberation, nuance, reason—and incrementalism above narrative. All are commodities with little currency in the hyper-polarized, Twitterized world of 2014. When Obama preaches at all these days, it's usually to the converted, as was evidenced by his final campaign swing to shrinking crowds in friendly states.
In an increasingly black-and-white political universe, Obama is now all gray, all the time. As a result, the man elected to be a post-partisan figure has become one, stuck in the unpopulated center, out of place in the binary equation of R's and D's. Those qualities were supposed to make him the perfect antidote to George W. Bush—but instead voters seem to have gotten what they wanted and then not wanted what they got....
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Mr. Spock in James' world.
Obama played "left back""
......as in left back in the changing room......snicker.
...but one heck of an on-the-down-low “bottom” and sociopath.
Poor Obama is stuck in the center between the Rs and Ds?
Obama propaganda ministry still sputtering along even after the big losses.
He is awesome politician with flawed world view.
Face It, Obama is a LOUSY human being. His whole life is a fiction sprinkled with Muslim chants, His mother was a skank, abandoned by an Kenyan drunk and alley cat of a mother, a unloved little mixed race boy, brought up by his white Grandma, probably molested and brainwashed by a Marxist pedophile to hate rich, white people. He is even mixed-up sexually and some day the whole house of cards which makes up his so called life will collapse.
“He is awesome politician with flawed world view.”
Check out his history. He won in Illinois by getting rid of his competition so he could run unopposed. He basically tried, and succeeded, to do the same with Romney - using the friendly media to paint a good man, Romney, as an ogre.
Obama is a lousy politician. He’s a no-compromise gangster. He ran out of playing time last night.
It's not often, but on that rare occasion, I come across a post/reply on FR that deserves to be etched in stone.
This is one.
Delusion.
Obama accomplished more than Bill Master Politician Clinton ever did.
And the knucklehead GOPe don’t even understand that.
They are fighting the last war.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
In other words, that's a total crock.
Obama is the "master" of phony symbolism over substance, illogic, designed lies, and taking reckless action without understanding or appreciating or taking responsibility for the serious negative consequences.
That’s why I referenced Spock with a beard.
"Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!"
I never got the point of a ‘bizzaro world’.
its unscientific.
Hopefully our next President will be an American.
Agreed. Bravo.
Indeed.
“The president’s skill set didn’t match up well with an election that prized extremes over nuance. “
Obama is the definition of extreme. The voters spoke and said, “We don’t like your extreme positions and actions.”
Indeed! Very nuanced and stuff.
The problem is: he's a lousy excuse for a human being.
I don’t believe he is that competent.
Someone got rid of his competition by corrupt Chicago practice, but there is no indications he really has ANY competencies or skills that a MODERATELY intelligent person has. I believe his way was greased by a corrupt machine in the Chicago way. He did his part and TRILLIONS of dollars were funneled to Wall Street and bankers, cronies and billionaires. What does he care if people that he doesn’t like to begin with don’t like him?
DK
They were able to hide that for awhile. Now the voters are increasingly on to him. Let's hope the exposure continues.
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