Jennifer Rubin spots former Clinton flakette Dee Dee Myers proffering advice to his Democrat successor, whose first year in office has gone about as badly as Clinton’s. But unlike Clinton, who both ran for the White House as a moderate, and had actual experience as a relatively moderate governor in a conservative southern state, reinventing President Obama is nowhere near as easily accomplished, Jennifer writes:
It’s hard to conceal your personality in the 24/7 news cycle and in the most prominent job in the world. What was intriguing in the campaign — that cool, “superior” temperament — is now a liability. But it’s hard to change who you are. If Democrats are queasy about the president’s lacking warmth and empathy, not to mention some executive skills, there isn’t much they can do about it. Their dream candidate turned out to be rather flawed in ways that are critical to a successful presidency. They — and we — will have to live with that for a few more years.
Fortunately, Barry will always have David Brooks on his side!
Related: “David Brooks Applies For a Job”, though I think Brooks Brothers already has the gig as first tailor.
I’m doing my part, LOL Obama style to burst the bubble of adoration that MSM folks like David Brooks so desperately want to maintain around President Obama. As long as we pay attention to who he is, it will remain difficult for those invested in reinventing Obama into convincing anyone that he isn’t exactly who he’s appeared to be since taking office.
The President, and the folks who choose which pictures get included in the Whitehouse Flickr Photostream, make the bubble-bursting job, pretty easy. They’re surprisingly incapable of realizing that non-acolytes might find many of these images less than inspirational.
(and feel free to post on your blog, any of the images I’ve so helpfully captioned since the beginning of the year, a few of them might even be funny)
Obama had to have the type of personality he has or he never gets nominated, let alone elected in 2008, because a more aggressive, decisive Barack Obama with his Chicago friends and voting record would have screamed out Al Shapton or Jesse Jackson to all but the most fervent left of the Democratic voting block (who voted for Al and/or Jesse in the past, anyway). And over the long presidential campaign, there would have been no way for Obama to have hidden an actual more aggressive personality from voters for the better part of 18-20 months before the election. The Democrats’ mistake was in believing either his magnificence and his race would cower any opposition to his plans, or he could just turn on a dime and become LBJ in the Senate cloakroom or the Oval Office, intimidating reluctant Blue Dogs into sacrificing their careers for him.