Posted on 09/29/2010 6:23:07 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
September 19th, 2010 Posted By Pat Dollard.
2008 gave America an incredibly charismatic candidate for President of the United States. Speech after speech showed a candidate with increasing momentum as primary race after primary race concluded. And then came the nomination, more speeches, culminating in an election night victory.
According to the person sitting across from me, those were incredibly exciting times, even for one who had been a participant with three previous presidential hopefuls. Barack Obama appeared to move from one city to the next effortlessly, gaining confidence and motivation with each campaign stop. He was remarkable to watch. He took the script, elevated it with his oration, left the crowds screaming for more, and then would do it all over again, time after time after time. On the campaign trail, Obama is a machine.
When I asked this insider if the media gave candidate Obama an assist throughout his campaign, it elicits a sly smile. Sure – we definitely had people in the media on our side. Absolutely. We went so far as to give them specific ideas for coverage. The ones who took that advice from the campaign were granted better access, and Obama was the biggest story in 2008, so yeah, that gave us a lot of leverage.
Could Obama have succeeded without the media’s help? Yeah, I think so. As I said, on the campaign trail he is very-very good. The opposition didn’t have near the energy, or the celebrity attraction that Obama brings. Plus, the country was burned out after eight years of Bush. We knew that going in. We knew that if we won the Democrat nomination, we were likely going to cruise our way to the White House – and that is exactly what we did.”
But after Obama was sworn in, things began to change? Almost immediately. Obama loved to campaign. He clearly didn’t like the work of being President though, and that attitude was felt by the entire White House staff within weeks after the inauguration. Obama the tireless, hard working candidate became a very tepid personality to us. And the few news stories that did come out against him were the only things he seemed to care about. He absolutely obsesses over Fox News. For being so successful, Barack Obama is incredibly thin-skinned. He takes everything very personally.
And you state he despises Joe Biden? Oh yeah. That is very well known in the White House. Obama chose Biden for one reason – to have an older white guy with some international policy credentials. Period. If Biden has all of this international experience that Obama found so valuable, why has he buried him under the pile of crap that became the stimulus bill? What does Joe Biden know about budgets and economics? Not much – but Obama didn’t care. Give Joe a job and get him the hell out of my hair – that pretty much sums up the president’s feelings toward Joe Biden.
What about Hillary Clinton? Obama is scared to death of Hillary. He doesn’t trust her – obsesses over her almost as much as he does Fox News. He respects her though, which might be why he fears her so much as well. He talks the game, but when it comes down to it, she has played the game on a far tougher level than he has, and Obama knows that.
How about Bill Clinton? I never heard Obama say anything about Bill Clinton personally, though I was told he has cracked a few jokes about the former president since getting into the White House. I have heard that Bill Clinton does not like Barack Obama. That really started when Obama played the race card against him during the primary campaign. Apparently Clinton was apoplectic over that and still hasn’t gotten over it. If there is one thing I have learned in this town – don’t make an enemy of Bill Clinton.
So if Obama doesn’t appear interested in the job of president, what does he do day after day? Well, he takes his meetings just like any other president would, though even then, he seems to lack a certain focus and on a few occasions, actually leaves with the directive that be given a summary of the meeting at a later date. I hear he plays a lot of golf, and watches a lot of television – ESPN mainly. I’ll tell you this – if you want to see President Obama get excited about a conversation, turn it to sports. That gets him interested. You start talking about Congress, or some policy, and he just kinda turns off. It’s really very strange. I mean, we were all led to believe that this guy was some kind of intellectual giant, right? Ivy League and all that. Well, that is not what I saw. Barack Obama doesn’t have a whole lot of intellectual curiosity. When he is off script, he is what I call a real “slow talker”. Lots of ummms, and lots of time in between answers where you can almost see the little wheel in his head turning very slowly. I am not going to say the president is a dumb man, because he is not, but yeah, there was a definite letdown when you actually hear him talking without the script.
That sounds like you are calling Obama stupid to me. No – I am not going to call him stupid. He just doesn’t strike me as particularly smart. Bill Clinton is a smart guy – he would run intellectual circles around Barack Obama. And Bill Clinton loved the politics of being president. Obama seems to think he shouldn’t have to be bothered, which has created a considerable amount of conflict among his staff.
So how bad are things at the White House these days? I don’t know about right now, because I have not been there in over a month. But I still hear things, and I know what it was like when I left. It’s not good. As bad as it might look to voters based on what they do know, it’s much worse. The infighting is off the charts. You got a Chief of Staff who despises cabinet members, advisors who despise the Chief of Staff, a President and First Lady having their own issues…
Come again – what about the First Lady? (The insider takes a deep breath) Ok, look, just like any other marriage, folks have issues. The Obamas are no different, except of course they are very high profile. I was told they were having issues before the campaign, and they have even more issues now. Maybe that is why Obama seems so detached – not so much the stress of the White House, but the stress of personal issues. I can certainly relate to that kind of situation.
Care to clarify some more on the Obama marriage? No. That is all I will say about that. Don’t ask again.
Ok, back to President Obama then. In just a few words, how would you describe him these days? Like I said, it’s been a while since I was last at the White House, but I don’t have a problem saying that the president is losing it. I don’t mean he is like losing his mind. I mean to say that he is losing whatever spark he had during the campaign. When you take away the crowds, Obama gets noticeably smaller. He shrinks up inside of himself. He just doesn’t seem to have the confidence to do the job of President, and it’s getting worse and worse. Case in point – just a few days before I left, I saw first hand the President of the United States yelling at a member of his staff. He was yelling like a spoiled child. And then he pouted for several moments after. I wish I was kidding, or exaggerating, but I am not. The President of the United States threw a temper tantrum. The jobs reports are always setting him off, and he is getting increasingly conspiratorial over the unemployment numbers. I never heard it myself, but was told that Obama thinks the banking system is out to get him now. That they and the big industries are making him pay for trying to regulate them more. That is the frame of mind the President is in these days. And you know what? Maybe he is right, who knows?
Will Obama run again in 2012? I don’t know. That subject was never brought up again after 2008, at least not around me. If he does, I think it would have more to do with allowing him another year and a half of campaigning again. He just loves it so much. He really needs the crowds, the cheering, the support of the people.
Can he win in 2012? Oh – absolutely. Who else campaigns as well as Barack Obama? Nobody. What politician is more loved and supported by the media? Nobody. I don’t see the Republicans offering up a candidate as powerful as Obama. I mean Sarah Palin? Really? Obama would defeat her by a 20 point landslide! Romney? The Republicans will enjoy these midterm elections, but 2012 is Obama’s year if he chooses to run again. As a president, Obama has many flaws, but as a candidate, he is near flawless.
But would another four years of an Obama presidency be the best thing for America? (Long pause) Now that is a much more interesting question right there, and a question I think more and more Democrat Party insiders are asking themselves these days, myself included. I am going to come right out and say it – No. Obama is not up to the job of being president. He simply doesn’t seem to care about the work involved. You want to know what? Obama is lazy. He really is. And it is getting worse and worse. Would another four years of Obama be the best thing for America? No it would not. What this country needs is a president who is focused on the job more than on themselves. Obama is not that individual. I actually hope he doesn’t run again. Looking back, as much fun as the campaign in 2008 was, Hillary Clinton should have been the nominee. Hillary was ready to be president. Obama was not ready. He had never lost a campaign. Everything was handed to him. He doesn’t really understand the idea of work – real, hard, get your heart and soul into it work. And frankly, that is very disappointing to a whole lot of us. _________________________________________________________________________
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The empty shell is cracking. Here comes the October Suprise ... Biden and Pelosi in the WH.
Fine by me
Come November 3rd he won't need to do anything - go play golf, have some ice cream....He's most likely bored with campaigning too - barely anyone is showing up to his shing-dings now....
Hence the TOTUS at any gathering of more than three people.
If you want to see the model for the obama campaign watch "Triumph of the Will." Same character, same crowds, same campaign based on cultivated hatred of predecessors. Obama succeeded because at least ten million "Americans" hated GW Bush more than they loved their country.
There is no way for obama or the dims to hope for the slightest improvement in the jobs numbers... and the entire house of cards could collapse at anytime. They will not and cannot undo the damage that the rats have done... only a Conservative Congress and in two years a new Conservative President can start that process.
obama has no way to recapture trust and belief... once lost both are almost impossible to recover... and if one does recover trust and belief... it takes many years of the straight and narrow and obama does not have the time and the truth is not in him. Game over.
LLS
There's a spot on those trousers near the center of the photgraph that will positively make you nauseous and cause you to lose your equilibrium if you gaze long enough. Try as you might you can't avoid staring.
Some very liberal woman was on C-SPAN this past weekend talking about how wonderful it would be if Biden and Hillary changed jobs. I don't think Obama would go far that solution--fear of Arkancide.
Truth is he never had it to begin with. He has never had to work in his whole life ever because he is black. No other reason.
He is a zero.
I want to throw his palm tree overboard and I want to put some Fulminate of Mercury under his bunk.
LLS
Pat,
Ask the guy about Barry’s birth certificate
I think he is being blackmailed by Hillary.She put all of her key people in place when he took office.When Netanyahu was told to look over the paperwork by Obama so he could have dinner with the girls and Michele,Hello.He is henpecked by more than one woman.
Michelle Obama hates anything American, period!!!
Didn’t we read this 2 months ago?
Which was a test run for how easy it would be for another apparently amiable, seemingly intelligent vacuum to run, on nothing more than vacuous slogans which mean whatever the people want to hear in them, and a man who seems to everything to everyone, to come from nowhere and be elected, and bide his time for a good crisis (possibly even contrive the crisis himself) and accrue unprecedented powers to himself over all American rights and liberty and freedom for an “unspecified” amount of time. Whoever thinks it couldn’t happen, did they think even ten years ago we could have a man with such a nebulous background as President now, who went through the motions of getting legislation passed over the overwhelming opposition of a majority of Americans, and is constantly feeling here and feeling there to see where he can push the envelope further for his own ends (or the ends of those pulling the strings)?
“Michelle has already lost it. She hates fat people.”
She hates herself?
i dont believe this anonymous source is real. i believe some insider might actually feel this way, But why say it out loud to a reporter?
Don’t think the press glombed on to him for who he is. They would have fawned over any new candidate that they could put a positve spin on. Hillary had baggage and the country knew it. They just wanted a dem in the white house. He was convenient and now they can turn on him until the next election. When they still won’t want a conservative in the white house.
Something I read a long time ago that a classmate of his or a teacher when he was back in grade school in Indonesia said. He was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up and his response was: “I want to be A president”. So, yeah, he wanted to be A president with all the pomp and adoration that he imagined A president enjoyed, but he does not want to be THE president of the U.S. now that he has discovered it’s not what he imagined it to be. Nobody told him that being THE president was hard work. He loves the campaigning because that is more like the adoration that his imaginary president enjoyed. He is a boy. He is still the little boy without a father, who longs for validation of his “self”. If he were not so destructive, one could almost feel sorry for him. Just my ruminations of the situations.
I am not a fan of Bill Clinton one iota worth!!! But....I must admire the way he is setting up Obama for the coming toilet flush!!! After November 2, 2010, Bill & Hillary Clinton, will take over the newly destroyed Democrat Party. Bill will then prompty dispatch POTUS Obama and his wife to the toilet flush to forever obscurity that they both richly deserve. Ah, Clinton, my boy, you are a real smoothie!!!
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