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Obama’s True Passion: Campaigning for Office

August 8, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

Barely had Barack Obama settled into his job as a United States Senator in 2005 than he began setting his sights on the White House.  He spent the second half of his Senate tenure running for the presidency.

He didn’t seem all that engaged in his legislative duties.  And now he doesn’t seem all that engaged in his executive ones.  He yielded to his fellow partisans in Congress to draft the key legislation of his term and preferred giving speeches to offering solutions.  Where his predecessor titled his memoir Decision Points, he could call his Decision Punts.

Responding to Drew Westen New York Times essay where that psychology professor acknowledged Obama’s absence of accomplishment prior to his election to the White House, John Hinderaker contends that

. . . there is only one context in which Obama has ever displayed passion–that is, when he was running for political office. When Democrats say, Where is the Obama we voted for and thought we knew? they are referring to Obama the candidate. It is not hard to see why Obama is passionate about his political campaigns, when he is seemingly so indifferent to almost everything else: they are about him.

Note that when he traveled to Europe in the midst of his bid for the White House in the summer of 2008, he did what no previous major party had done, headlined a “campaign rally” on foreign soil.

Seems Barack Obama would rather run for president than be president.

Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, Obama Worship & Indoctrination

Comments

  1. TnnsNE1 says

    August 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm - August 8, 2011

    You make it sound like he has a choice. He doesn’t have the abilities to be POTUS. That would be akin to asking me which tie would go best with your suit/shirt/socks/belt or whatever else you tie is supposed to match. I simply can’t do it !

  2. Sebastian Shaw says

    August 8, 2011 at 3:00 pm - August 8, 2011

    Campaigning & leading are 2 separate things. Most people have soured over Obama precisely due to his lack of leadership, his Marxist policies against the will of the people such as ObamaCare & Porkulus, & his need for speeches to exalt himself. Speeches are leadership either. Where’s Obama’s plans so he can submit them to Congress? He’s all but abdicated leadership the moment he became POTUS in January 20th, 2009. Obama is toast.

  3. Peter Hughes says

    August 9, 2011 at 7:58 pm - August 9, 2011

    In other words, we have our very first affirmative-action president.

    Not so pretty, huh libtards?

    You asked for it, girls.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

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