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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This marxist/democrat creep Obama would be in prison if the news media had not hidden all his illegal , unconstitutional acts he has perpetrated
Why do all these so called experts write about this guy like this is all a surprise,Obama is Mr.Vote PRESENT.
It was known from his record who and what he was,a freaking Radical lying Marxist and RACIST,PERIOD.
Politics is, at the end of the day, a relationships-built business.
As a narcissist who cares only about himself, Obama sucks at relationships.
I’m with you, DK!
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