A lot of very smart motivation specialists believe that people subconsciously self-sabotage all the time. Frankly, I think BO wants to win too bad. It overrides his common sense.
Further, as a typical textbook leftist, he doesn’t look at people the way we do. He thinks of us as computers which respond according to our programming. [The blank slate theory.] Thus, he believes in focus groups, analysis, etc. to coldly calculate his moves [the ones that are planned anyway].
You may be right about that.
Personally, I think that Obama is a very confused person, who really doesn't know himself. He can't ever seem to take a principled position on anything of substance. He flip-flops and dissembles at the drop of a hat whenever he's challenged on anything.
Look at his record going back to his college days. There's just nothing there. It's as if he were shuttled through school, then into politics, and up the ladder without even showing up.
All of this is curious for a presidential candidate. I don't think we've ever seen a presidential candidate about whom we knew so little. He seems to have cruised through life without leaving a wake.
What we do know about him can mostly be inferred through his nefarious associations, and what legislation he signed on to.
He's like some indefinite, hazy picture that you have to squint your eyes to make out. A puzzle of sorts, with lots of pieces missing.
The point I'm trying to make, is that it appears that he's actually worked at being invisible and indefinite. So much so, that he's even a mystery to himself.
This is why I brought up the theory last night that he may be the product of a Pain-Drug-Hypnosis deep op of some kind. I'm talking about a real life Manchurian Candidate. Someone who was selected to be programmed and groomed to be exactly where he is today, and poised to be the instrument of a covert takeover of our government.
I know it sounds like science fiction, but government intelligence agencies were capable of doing this sort of stuff a long time ago. It's entirely conceivable that a long-term operation of this sort could have been begun decades back, once the operative was selected.
There are just too many dots that don't connect about this guy. And those dots that do connect, come together in inexplicable and suspicious ways.