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February 2, 2010
Is Obama Fed Up with Playing President?
Posted by The MaryHunter at February 2, 2010 10:35 AM
What ever happened to remaking America, Hopeychange style? Roadblocks a plenty hindered Barack Obama during the first year of is first and probably last term. Byron York has an interesting take on Dear Leader: perhaps Obama is already dissatisfied with being president. York briefly narrates the story of young Barry's rise in Chicago and Illinois politics, a bristling progressive with his eye always out for more power, to do more for to the people of Illinois and ultimately the nation.
Today, he is in the most powerful position in the world. Yet he has spent a year struggling -- and failing -- to enact far-reaching makeovers of the American economy. So now, even in the Oval Office, there are signs that the old dissatisfaction is creeping back in.
At a Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Washington's Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Obama brought up the fact that many people see him as almost preternaturally calm. "I have a confession to make," Obama said. "There are times I'm not so calm ... when progress seems too slow ... when it feels like all these efforts are for naught, and change is so painfully slow in coming, and I have to confront my own doubts."
Obama said it to be inspirational, but the fact is, in the past, that's when he looked for a new job.
The president's dissatisfaction is shining through; perhaps he's not really cut out for -- or up to -- the job.
After all, what IS left for Obama to attain? (Besides the Heisman Trophy, of course.) The pinnacle of his presidency to date was on our about January 20, 2009, and it's been pretty much downhill ever since. His Nobel Peace Prize was an object of humor even to the left. All appearances are that he will be trapped in this hapless presidency with a terrified and/or Republican Congress, a somewhat conservative Supreme Court, and an irate public for the next three years. While by no means down for the count, Obama's efforts to remake America with his own twisted, progressive vision are meeting fail upon fail upon fail.
Yea, I guess I'd be a little fed up as well.
Image tip: TED.
