“Don’t overlook the fact that strategically he and his administration have usually been several steps ahead of the republicans on just about every issue since he first started running for office.”
Your statement gives Obama too much credit. I think that when it appears as though he has been ahead of the republicans, it has been because of their own ineptitude. Obama is about as smart as a wet dishrag.
If a horse wins a race because it is fast or because the other horses are slower or more clumsy, it is still a win.
I agree - Obama is a doofus.
But the people who control Obama's puppet strings, who planned, engineered and controlled his campaigns and election wins in 2008 and 2012 are plenty sly and smart.
They are probably as dirty and underhanded as anyone who has ever been involved in politics.
But they were smart enough to figure out how to manipulate the election system, the press, and over half the voters.
They were smart enough to find and groom a black doofus as their front man, and get him into the White House twice.And they are smart enough to formulate and implement tactics that keep him almost untouchable issue after issue, scandal after scandal.