Obama is a trained organizer, trained in the Saul Alinsky style. Personalizing an issue is part of the technique.
I’m glad to see somebody else remembers the Alinsky connection. We are underestimating Obama if we don’t realize that he is fully a master of this vicious, completely unscrupulous, leftist style of getting his way. He may know nothing about world affairs, nothing about government, but as far as the manipulation of crowds and public opinion, he trained with the best.