I go back and forth about this. Sometimes I think that he is not interested in winning. At other times I think that he just has no idea how to work hard at something. Which ever the case, I have had the feeling for a while now that he is just phoning it in.Obama likes the bling. That's about it. That's the only aspect of the job he cares about. The rest is a hassle.
Didn't start out that way. He liked the idea of turning millions of lives upside down. He liked the idea of sticking it to white America. He liked the fawning adulation he got from his peeps, the low-information voters, the Obama-phone users.
He just didn't expect any push-back. It was fun as long as the target was immobilized. Problem is, the target didn't stand still, and eventually it started to fight back. Fun quotient went downhill rapidly after that.
The President, like any chief executive, has much less raw power in fact than how it appears to an outsider. He never has the resources he needs to get done what he wants to get done. He has to use his personality to get people who don't like him to cooperate with him, and in order to do that, he has to be prepared to compromise, to offer the person on the other side of the table something he wants in return for something else.
Obama thinks of his opposition as members of the Ku Klux Klan, as members of the Nazi party, as racist boogie-men. He can't compromise with them because he hates them.
This is one reason why he can't get anything done.
Very likely some of his minions will stir up as much “civil unrest” as possible in order to punish “white America” for rejecting him.
Dunno. If I had a $35 million compound awaiting me in Hawaii, I probably couldn’t lose the election fast enough!
I had a son-in-law who was raised to believe that the world revolved around him. He never learned to persevere or work hard for anything. Obviously, marriage takes work and he had no clue about that.
In any event, Obama’s behavior reminds me so much of him. Just imagine, being President of the United States is work. So I think that ego aside, Obama would be happy not to have a job any more.