Obama has the personal charm of Richard Nixon-Daley, UK Telegraph

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1/21/15, "State of the Union: Barack Obama channels Gordon Brown," UK Telegraph, Janet Daley

"What a waste of national goodwill this presidency has been." 

"A good proportion of the US electorate must have hoped that in electing Barack Obama as president, they would be getting the visionary intellect and magnetism of a John Kennedy. 

Instead, they ended up with the vision of Jimmy Carter and the personal charm of Richard Nixon. Mr Obama's State of the Union address was about as relentlessly bellicose and self-regarding as it was possible for a president whose politics had received two successive popular rejections to be. 
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Combined with the defiance of a man whose views have been repudiated in a way that leaves him powerless against a Republican-dominated Congress, there was an absolute refusal to grant that his own obstinacy might be in any way responsible for rendering the remainder of his time in office largely pointless. 

This implacable insistence on his own inevitable rightness, and the determination to claim credit for any conceivable success that the country (and its people) might have achieved, combined with a conviction that all those who opposed his judgment (on anything) were involved in a hateful conspiracy – where had I heard all this before? The lack of self-doubt, the paranoia about ambition-driven enemies, and the belief that history would exonerate him from all error seemed somehow so familiar...
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Of course! This was vintage Gordon Brown, even down to the detail of policy: the simple-minded credo of wealth redistribution which Obama obviously thought was made possible by economic recovery. (He actually seemed to believe that the tenuous return of growth meant that national wealth could now be divided equally by taxation, ignoring the stultifying effect that higher taxes would have on that emerging growth.) 

In the end, he made his usual self-righteous pitch for bipartisan politics – which was, in effect, a demand that his opponents (and the voters who had swept them into Congressional power) simply admit that he was right all along. 

What a waste of national goodwill this presidency has been. With a spirit of generosity and a real determination to unite the country, an Obama White House might have accomplished so much. Instead, it has shown itself to be disastrously out of its depth on foreign policy and intransigently out of touch on domestic issues. And contrary to his own clear belief, I do not think history will decide otherwise." via Lucianne

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Comment: I enjoyed this article but don't think Obama lacks "depth" or is "out of touch." He's exactly spot on and a great success at carrying out the radical left agenda. He just has a worse personality than some of the others.



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