A Man on His Way to Bitterness

[cwo_ghwebb]

This didn’t look anything like the Barack Obama I remember from the campaign. Obama the candidate seemed almost unaware of his opponents. At his best, which was most of the time, he rose above them completely, utterly unwounded by the attacks.

He also seemed like an adult. Obama was forever reminding audiences of the hard choices America needed to make, choices that had been sugarcoated when they weren’t ignored completely by politicians too fearful to tell the whole truth. Once elected, Obama promised, that would change.

Never has a president been warped by Washington quicker. At times tonight, Obama sounded like an embattled second-termer with a 35 percent approval rating. What percentage of his speech was spent lashing out at his enemies, real and imagined? Radio and cable-television pundits, George W. Bush, former Congresses, unnamed ghouls employing “scare tactics,” whose “only agenda is to stop reform at any cost”—they’re all against him, Obama said. And they’re lying.

A Man on His Way to Bitterness - The Daily Beast

Usually, a president has gone through a number of political battles before assuming the highest office in the nation. Most hold executive office at another level before running for the office, and have to deal with policy battles and at least occasional defeats before entering the Oval Office.

They build a thicker skin, get a better sense of their strengths and limitations, and these experiences make for better presidents in the long haul.

Obama, on the other hand, has never held executive office in politics. He has spent his short political life as a legislator, and not even a particularly bold legislator. Obama was much more of a bandwagon man as a legislator, offering rhetorical instead of political leadership, and for the most part receiving nothing but warm praise bordering on tongue-baths from the media.

What Carlson sees is a man completely unprepared for the fact that he can’t sell refrigerators to Eskimos.

Carlson: When did the Hopemeister turn bitter?


And they oppose his policies because he's 1/4 black with big ears! I'm sorry, now I just jumped into that 'racist' crowd.

[BOP]

You're racist because you pointed out the racism of the lefties? I know that's how their teeny, devious minds work, but that's like saying I'm misogynistic because I point out the misogynism of the Dems.

[ImnoMensa]

Obama is not a man on his way to bitterness, hes is a bitter man who hid that bitterness and now is letting it show.

Bitterness at being abandoned by his father and at his mother because she laid down with his father to begin with, hate for her because she took him to Indonesia and then left him with her mother. Bitterness is nothing new to Obama , he has just hidden it with arogance. He is a man with powers far greater than his ability.