Which leads to the question why? Axelrod is not stupid. Obama's big donors are not stupid. Why are they creating this impression of him? It would be very easy for them to have him hunker down in D.C., make a big point of being a man of the people, sharing their pain and so on and so on...
Good question. I have always thought that the Obama regime would be brought down by internal disputes.
Obama's handlers think they are running him...and he thinks he is running them. In his heart, he's a megalomanic Third-World African Muslim dictator, and it's all about him. Radical Marxism was only the stepping stone for the emergence of The One.
On the other hand, the radical Marxists (which means most of the adminstration and about 1/3 of Congress) thought they had finally gotten somebody they could control.
They're on a collision course, and something has got to give.