I don't think it's deliberate. He has deliberately made some bad moves these past few years, but I think it's mainly due to a political inexperience, an immature postmodern worldview that pretends there are no such thing as unintended consequences (for instance, I think he actually believes some of the class-warfare crap he's been selling) and that he's generally disposed to view American interests as secondary to his ideological ones. From what I can tell, he's also got a bad temper, poor work habits and no curiosity about concepts outside of his "social justice" wheelhouse -- remember when he mispronounced "Navy corpsmen" as "corpse-men" at the National Prayer Breakfast? He also seems to have massive command-and-control problems, isolates himself in his inner circle and -- the worst sin of all -- believes his own press.
The reasons for those failures are open to debate. I've been thinking about it a bit, lately. In reading his books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams From My Father", more than once the "N-word" sprang to mind... that N-word being "Narcissist", Mr. Toure. Here is a man who wrote, not one, but two memoirs before he was forty-five years old, and found plenty of enablers among the press, Hollywood and Norwegian Socialists.
I think the world's worst actors (Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Pakistan, North Korea, etc.) don't see him as an ally, just as a light touch who can be easily bent to their whims because he is confused about how the world actually works and can't marshal action when it conflicts with his illusion of how it works.
Yep, that all adds up to a bad president, but bad in a Carter or Woodrow Wilson kind of way, not in a Buchanan or Harrison kind of way. Maybe the political epitaph will read, "At best, Hamlet, at worst, Macbeth."
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:04 am (UTC)The reasons for those failures are open to debate. I've been thinking about it a bit, lately. In reading his books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams From My Father", more than once the "N-word" sprang to mind... that N-word being "Narcissist", Mr. Toure. Here is a man who wrote, not one, but two memoirs before he was forty-five years old, and found plenty of enablers among the press, Hollywood and Norwegian Socialists.
I think the world's worst actors (Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Pakistan, North Korea, etc.) don't see him as an ally, just as a light touch who can be easily bent to their whims because he is confused about how the world actually works and can't marshal action when it conflicts with his illusion of how it works.
Yep, that all adds up to a bad president, but bad in a Carter or Woodrow Wilson kind of way, not in a Buchanan or Harrison kind of way. Maybe the political epitaph will read, "At best, Hamlet, at worst, Macbeth."