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Posted on 11/03/2014 10:00:24 PM PST by Mozilla
Barack Obama is antsy. His aides can see it when he alights from Air Force One from the all-too-occasional campaign trips he has taken this fall. There’s a sigh, an unhappy-camper body language when he finds himself back in the depressing slipstream of Ebola confabs and national-security-crisis-of-the-day meetings. The vibe, according to people in his orbit, is not so much of being checked out as of being fed up.
“[I] do like campaigning. ... It’s fun,” Obama said on Thursday, speaking wistfully at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud in Maine. But the Michaud event was the exception, not the rule. “There have been $2 billion in ads shitting on the president and no one to defend him,” a senior administration official told us. “He is very fired up to get this campaign behind him, to run through the tape.”
Obama, for so long the man with the bright future, has hated being relegated to a sidelined pariah in the midterms—even if it is the inevitable lot of a second-termer with approval ratings hovering in the low 40s—according to a dozen current and former Obama advisers we spoke with in recent days. He both resents the narrative that he’s basically irrelevant and doesn’t much relish the fact that many of his longest-serving staffers, the remnant core of his once-buzzing and brash White House, are strapping themselves to ejector seats. More than anything, Obama’s loathing for Washington, an attitude that reads as ennui to outsiders, has hardened into a sullen resignation at being trapped in a broken system he failed to change, advisers told us.
“I sense a certain fatalism there, and it’s disturbing,” says a former adviser on Obama’s campaign who, like many others we talked with for this story, requested anonymity. “There’s a sense that ‘I’ve tried everything, and look where it got me.’ People misread it as disengagement. It’s frustration. But who cares? It’s a bad mind-set.” Another Obama veteran adds, “the bully pulpit is gone, maybe forever.”
Administration officials tell us that Obama’s political and policy teams are planning a big counterattack if the Republicans win the Senate—introducing a slate of legislative proposals and executive actions on immigration, infrastructure and early childhood education that are popular with the Democratic base and that he will dare the GOP to oppose. Time and history, however, aren’t on his side. The six-month period between Election Day and next summer is likely the last chance for Obama to make his mark before the 2016 presidential campaign to succeed him really kicks into high gear.
As long as he can fulfil his prime directive he is a happy camper. More weapons to Isis et al is all he and his fellow moslems want.
To reboot is to admit he was wrong, he will go down with his ship
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Can Obama reboot? Can Lois Lerner find her hard drive?
SHUTDOWN -H NOW
The first page was an acknowledgement of reality the next two were crammed full of ‘rescue’ statements and excuses. Budoff-Brown is wistful for the Greek column days. Strapper/shill.
Some show brought it up on Fox News so I went to go look for it. People on the show say that it is real what they are saying about Obama. I posted this hours after the show.
Naw. He doesn't care.what other people think. He's a narcissist. He thinks he is a Sultan and he enjoys the perks.
Cordially,
Reboot for what?
He will be playing MORE golf, as he knowns his time is limited.
And why not, he still has all his czars continuing the fundamental changing of America behind the scenes.
He is just hoping there won’t be any major crises that interrupt his T-times.
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