He is most decidedly not an “empty suit.” He knows what he wants and, so far, is very effective in attaining it. Prosperity, even recovery is no part of it.To call him an empty suit you have to posit that he wants the same sort of things Americans generally want in their society. Hussein does not want those things. Freemarket Capitalism is no part of his goals. Liberty has no part. Read Marx. Read Lenin. Hussein’s goals are described by those authors.
He believes socialism will make the poor wealthier. He believes he knows the way and that all the others before him failed because they did it wrong. It is childish magical thinking.
He's clueless how to create wealth. He's never done it in his entire life. He thinks there is only so much wealth and that he has to take from those who have it in order to give it to those who don't and that magically everyone as a whole will be better off.
He has no concept that it will only destroy what wealth there is making everyone poorer in the process. There's the endless wreckage of socialism all over the world and he's too arrogant, blind and ignorant to understand where it will lead when he pursues it.
The same applies to foreign policy. He has magical thinking on how the world works and what the results of actions will be.
There's no signs of intelligence there. Only blind dogma being parroted from others.
An empty suit devoid of reason. He's way over his head and there can be no likely outcome other than failure.
We disagree in that you apparently believe there's some underlying grand intelligence that got him where he is. There's nothing in his past to suggest that. He's a pretty face that can give a good speech that the powers that be in the Democratic party used as a front to gain power for themselves.
At least that's what I think...
Maybe I'm wrong, but I've seen little evidence of it so far...