When Folks Stop Liking Barry

President Obama's image of leadership flounders in the Gulf of Mexico. While Governor Jindal displays the true qualities of leadership, our president is stuck in Saul Alinksy gear, demonizing a foreign corporation instead of actually doing anything constructive. Disgust at Obama's genuine incompetence at this genuine ecological disaster stretches across party lines and the ideological spectrum.

Barry blames Bush for everything about our dismal economy. A partisan rubber-stamp Congress has given Obama the wild and wasteful expenditures which his childish, failed, quasi-Keynesian witches' brew prophesies will spend us into prosperity. It hasn't worked. Now, oddly, congressmen facing electoral apocalypse have stopped writing our wise leader a blank check against the federal treasury.

Wearing the hat of Commander in Chief, Obama explicitly sought a general in sync with his plan to end the war in Afghanistan. Then, when General McChrystal snickered too publicly at Obama's cartoon leadership, the president replaced him with the old Bush team -- the man Obama and his pals three years ago were calling "General Betray Us." Does this cause a "willing suspension of disbelief" in Obama?

The nomination of radical leftist women to the Supreme Court simply reinforces the image of Obama as a closet Marxist. His cabinet choices reinforce this image of radicalism. The American people, during Obama's administration, profess to be conservative -- and increasingly conservative according to Gallup, a poll that already shows that conservatives outnumber liberals in every single state of the Union.

Obama's support comes chiefly from three groups: Blacks, for whom racial solidarity still, sadly, trumps reason; Hard Left socialists in the public sector unions, government bureaucracies, think tanks, and their wealthy patrons; and the Mainstream Media, many of whose members are children of white, upper-middle class families who carry a deep sense of presumptive racial guilt for which they insist on repeatedly flogging their viewers and readers.

Viewed in the harsh light of reality (as opposed to the softly radiant halos placed about his head by the media), there is nothing particularly appealing or likable about Obama. He is cold and distant, unengaged by other people and their ideas. Aside from political mentors, he does not appear to have any close friends, and does not respond well to even mild criticism.

As for Obama's vaunted communications skills: they simply vanish when he is deprived of his electronic crutches; leaving him grasping for words and leaning instead upon crutches of the verbal kind - "um", "er", "well", "uh", "let me be clear..."

Whereas one might reasonably expect a Harvard-trained attorney to be knowledgeable and articulate (if supercilious to a fault), Obama often comes off as superficial and disinterested in honest argumentation. He is notably dependent upon clichés, truisms, and his own quirky vocal intonations to purchase for him the respect he believes is his due, but for which he lacks the true currency of knowledge and experience.

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