So, let’s put in the full quote and NOT JUST STOP at “I’m not a visionary”.
Here’s the entire quote in context:
“I’m not a manager. I’m not a visionary,” he told the crowd in an apparent reference to his GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. “I’m a guy from a steel town who grew up understanding what made this country great and for the years that I’ve been involved in public life, put my heart and my effort on the line to make this country the kind of country that we all want to hand on to our children and grandchildren.”
Santorum also touched on the fight over who’s the real “Washington insider,” saying the only reason Romney wasn’t a Washington politician is because he lost his Senate race in 1994.
“You hear a lot of talk about who’s the insider and who’s the outsider in this race. There’s a guy that’s outside of Washington, who was not a senator or a congressman — not because he didn’t try — but because he never got elected,” he said. In contrast, Santorum added, he was someone who was “an outsider when he was inside” Washington.
Full boilerplate quote, spoken a million times by all kinds of politicians including Obama. If you take it seriously, you’re on the way to understanding the appeal of Obama’s empty talk.