I’m seeing Obama as a man who has never had to really think about issues or bore in on the facts. He’s more like a man whose thoughts are made up of whispers, and whomever whispers in his ear last has the topmost thought.
No wonder he’s tired of playing President. Too hard to think clearly; easier to go with the last suggestion. No principles, no core, a zero.
I agree with that assessment and add that Obama is as mesmerized by his own rhetoric as many of the Kool-aid drinkers. I think he feeds off the applause, the pomp and circumstance, the teleprompter speeches and short, if any, question periods, the swooning audience. He doesn’t have that in the White House where it is work, horse-trading, hard negotiations, hard questions by an aggressive White House press corp, aides spoon-feeding him answers he can’t think of at the moment. I think it is telling that, as he was campaigning last week for the stimulus, he invited a Republican congressman to ride Air Force One with him to the townhall meeting he held. Yet, for the duration of the flight, he never tried to discuss the matter with the congressman one on one, instead publicly challenging his townhall audience to pressure the congressman to vote Obama’s way. He’s a bully, and needs his gang to back him up when he does it.