If Obama is aloof and uninterested in the drudge work needed to push his agenda, we should all be thankful.
What if Obama were a roaring freight train like Lyndon Baines Johnson? LBJ was already an experienced senator then Senate majority leader, spent a hiatus as VP then following the JFK assassination jumped into the saddle and took off, dragging Congress behind him. Cajoling, pressuring, armtwisting, LBJ did it all pushing liberal legislation through like a flood. Unfortunately for LBJ, this included escalating the Vietnam war until his entire presidency choked on it and he chose not to seek a second term. The train wreck known as the late Sixties followed in his wake.
Again, let us be grateful that Obama is no LBJ.
LBJ had years as majority leader to hone his political skills. Obama had hardly any experience leading anything.
If Obama is aloof and uninterested in the drudge work needed to push his agenda, we should all be thankful.
Look at it this way, Jimmy Carter was an awful, abysmal president. But a Democrat was going to be elected in 1976 anyway. A Southerner with a military background was probably not the worst Democrat we could have elected, even if he was more incompetent than the others.
Sooner or later, the country was going to elect a Northern Democrat again. Sooner or later we'd have an inner city Black President. And at some time or other, someone with a radical left background would make it into the White House.
Given all that, an incompetent, inexperienced Northern Democrat, an inner city African-American raised by a White mother and grandparents in Indonesia and Hawaii, and a sometime follower of radical causes who wins because of contributions from investment bankers may be a disaster, but not the worst of all possible disasters.