subject: I say - therefore I am. Part 1 [print this page] A few days ago I went through a traumatic experience: a well-known Web site Politico reported as a sensational news that the White House began preparing for the election campaign in 2012.
Do you think the Obama campaign ever stop their activities? Did the chief presidential adviser David Axelrod did not - the same David Axelrod, who worked all his life only one thing: leadership election campaign and to mobilize public opinion in support of their candidates through various ploys are not always kosher properties? It seemed that, having won the election in November 2008, Obama continues to run for president without showing the slightest sign of understanding that it is time to shift gears and begin to edit.
However, let me say a word in defense of our unfortunate president who was, and so mercilessly castigate at all angles. The only thing that knows and loves Barack Obama - is to political campaigns, run for elected office. This is his element, otherwise he can not.
People in the vast majority are not designed to do many things simultaneously. As a rule, especially in our age of specialization, we are able to do only one thing (and far from all this goes well). Of course, it is easy to remember the names of historical figures, amazed contemporaries and descendants of its universal talent: Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin ... But they and their like - a handful, they are an exception to the general rule.
Barack Obama is not among them. He - the singer of one note, all his life he did only one thing: talking and talking, endlessly talking. He spoke in hypostasis street agitator, the mobilization of black on the implementation of its "legitimate claims" ("take away and divide!") Said as a teacher of law, spoke as a "mild and gentle," a member of the Senate in Illinois, said as a member of the U.S. Senate; said, not stopping at the election trail. So is it any wonder that the White House, he continues to do what is inherent to the nature, the only thing that he turns out - to talk about?
Whatever happens, the reaction of Barack Obama's clear: a new language or a few speeches (or even several dozens of speeches, as in the case of the pearl of his political agenda - health care reform). And if the American people refuse to bite on the bait, the president and it never occurs that maybe people do not like the product, which he imposed on them. No, he is convinced that the product-all in order and that is just how to explain to people all the details of the reform, they will be crazy about her, but the packaging let us down. And instead of heeding the voice of the people, he convinces himself that one more question, what the strength of the two - and all right, the voters realize what a wonderful reform, which is eager to bestow benefits upon the president, and soon everything will be fine.
Rarely a despot in a position for a long time to keep a sober mind, primarily because he surrounds himself with court flatterers, that a solid wall fence off the throne from reality and diligently strengthen their master at a higher opinion of his person. Unable to resist the temptation of power and our president, especially given its apparent natural tendency to megalomania. Washington Post reporter Dana Milbenk recently reported that Obama's inner circle consists of people who believe or pretend to be skillfully that they consider him a messiah (Milbenk makes an exception only for the Chief of Administration of the White House Rham Emanuel, at the request of which, apparently, and wrote an article ). And now, having heard plenty of compliments and enthusiasm about his incomparable eloquence, president saddles faithful teleprompter - and forward to the rhetorical feats!
It would seem, Massachusetts catastrophe had sobered him. For call what happened in Massachusetts, except as a catastrophe, it is impossible. To this naigolubeyshem of all the blue (ie, liberal) states, where the Republican Party still existed purely nominally, was elected as a Republican Senator Scott Brown, is equivalent to a political earthquake. And considering also that Scott Brown took the position that a half-century was the inalienable property of the legendary Kennedy dynasty, and even to the same publicly promised to block obamovskuyu attack - this is, sorry, just a scandal. If the liberal program of actual nationalization of health through unimaginable deficits had not like the voters' Democratic People's Republic of Massachusetts "as they call this state, then, may I ask what her chances in other, less frantically left parts of the country?
