Obama's a Politician (You Forgot, Didn't You)
I have no idea why President Obama would say this to Republicans[:] Now we've got three months to go so we've decided, well, we can politick. They've forgot I know how to politick pretty good.
[...] Generally, I think the first black president with the middle name Hussein is good at politicking. But ever since the 2004 race against Alan Keyes, with a pause during the 2008 primaries, he's shown an amazing willingness to be baited into unwinnable news cycle spats. This sounds like something George W. Bush would say, only days after the "Welcome to the Recovery" Geithner column, which also sounded like something George W. Bush would say. -- Dave Weigel
Mission Accomplished! I suppose someone out to defend our President would say that Obama takes the bait because his implacably unfair political enemies will stop at nothing to destroy him, and that gets under a dude's skin, even someone with the supremely collected cool of Barack Obama. And someone out to deride our President at every turn would insist that evidence like this keeps showing Americans how arrogant and petty this supposedly hope-filled and transcendent human being really is.
Whatever the answer, it seems hard to dismiss the impression that what we're seeing here is a consequence of how Obama sees himself. In the same way, George W. Bush didn't look so hot when he clutched the podium during his debates with Kerry and complained that being President was hard. Gripes like that make the Presidency look too hard for the guy doing the griping -- and a President who has to remind the world that he knows a thing or two about politics makes him look like he doesn't know a thing.
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Jun '10
Re: Obama's a Politician (You Forgot, Didn't You)
Obama is such an amateur. If you're a committed socialist leader, you really need to stay behind the scenes as much as possible. Then, when your plans go awry, as they always will, you can be a bit above it all, and just pick somebody on your team to take the blame for the current mess. This is also where gulags come in handy. The person you've picked to take the blame goes to the gulag to keep him from telling his side of the story, and his reluctant replacement has somewhere worse to go, if he's not interested in picking up the baton. Those gulags come in real handy. :)
May '10
Re: Obama's a Politician (You Forgot, Didn't You)
Relatively speaking, the guy had a cakewalk against McCain--he had the benefit of a perfect storm of good breaks. Since, he's revealed himself to be thin-skinned, defensive, and implacably self-righteous. That's the polar opposite profile of a guy who's "pretty good at politicking."
Jul '10
Re: Obama's a Politician (You Forgot, Didn't You)
There's an old Wall Street saying: "Everybody's a genius in an up market."
Obama's been operating in an up market for Socialism, with an unstoppable Congressional majority of far-Left Democrats who have been dreaming of this chance for decades.
LBJ pushing through his liberal agenda against opposition by Dixiecrats and Republicans - or Reagan scoring victories against Democrat majorities and both houses - now there was politickin'.