Obama Trips Over Dead Canary

Obama’s minders have a bit of a problem. Thus, they ran back to David Plouffe, his 2008 campaign manager who will increase his role in the Obama administration. Recall that after the Brown victory, Obama went back on the campaign trail in Ohio, looking and sounding dreadful.

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Obama’s minders have a bit of a problem. Thus, they ran back to David Plouffe, his 2008 campaign manager who will increase his role in the Obama administration. Recall that after the Brown victory, Obama went back on the campaign trail in Ohio, looking and sounding dreadful. As the Obama presidency disintegrates, the president turns to his Chicago political team, rather than find advisers who have some acquaintance with governing. Especially revealing was the return of Plouffe; the Narcissist in Chief’s best guess as to how to recover from a protracted concatenation of very public narcissistic wounds is to ramp up his marketing strategy. Doug Wilder at Politico: “The need is becoming more obvious by the day: He must overhaul his own team, replacing the admittedly brilliant advisers who helped elect him with others more capable of helping him govern. Getting elected and getting things done for the people are two different jobs.” “The changes must go much deeper. Obama’s West Wing is filled with people who are in their jobs because of their Chicago connections or because they signed on with Obama early during his presidential campaign.” “One problem is that they do not have sufficient experience at governing at the executive branch level. The deeper problem is that they are not listening to the people.” Democrats are becoming a bit cynical about the supposed personal popularity of their president: “Obama's job approval ratings are sliding, but we Democrats are told not to worry. We are told that he remains personally popular with the American people.” “It would be a grave mistake for the president and those around him to misread the current polls and analyses. They suggest that 1) the American people do not like the direction in which the country is heading; 2) they do not believe that either Democrats or Republicans are showing that they get the message and are doing the business of the people; 3) they hold Congress in very low regard; but 4) they really like the president. Yet, they keep going to the polls to rebuke him resoundingly every chance it is presented.” Yes, they really, really like the president but keep castigating him at every electoral opportunity. Democrats tend to be slow learners. They are genuinely surprised that the Obama presidency is unmitigated disaster. Wilder likens the recent democrat humiliations to the aphoristic canary in the coal mine: “Indeed, even before Bob McDonnell’s resounding victory, the canary had been dead on the floor for months. In Virginia's most Democratic-friendly regions, the Democrats had been narrowly winning — or outright losing — special elections that should have been taken easily.” The entire Obama campaign was based on mythology. His fictionalized life story created a captivating narrative. Millions were beguiled into believing that this man was something exceptional, even talismanic. “The One,” however, turned out to be nothing more than a Chicago politician with troubling associations and a cryptic past. While the Obama presidency will be catastrophic for America, his campaign was a spectacular success. It took colossal skill to convince half of the voting population that Obama was qualified to be leader of the free world. No campaign has ever raised more money than Obama’s, and the campaign set new standards for exploiting technology and the media. The phantasm created was that such a spectacular campaign would somehow ensure a spectacular presidency. Our inclination to follow charismatic leaders goes back to primitive times when people believed in magic. We really should be past that by now. But the Obamanutz have exalted Obama to the extent that he is not only perceived as the Messiah, but he is exempt from the rules that apply to the rest of us by virtue of his greatness. Barack Obama doesn’t care about governing. His compulsion is to maintain his narcissistic supply; governing requires hard work, not exactly Obama’s bailiwick. Democrats are in a panic about upcoming elections; but they cast their lot with Obama: a man with no executive experience, deeply disturbing associations, and gaping holes in his history who was elevated to the highest office in the land—not based on merit, but impelled by the force of a mass movement. Don’t expect him to notice that dead canary.