Charisma Alone Is A Recipe For Failure

The one thing Obama has going for him is his charisma. Personally, I think he is dramatically overexposing himself in order to push his ObamaCare agenda… how dramatic and moving can the President’s 15th major address on health care actually be? The power of the Presidency is diluted when it is used too often, and PresBo likes the sound of his own voice so much that he’s overdoing it.

Charisma alone won’t make him a success, and so far he’s made some major rookie mistakes. How can a former member of Congress think letting them draft bills with little or no guidance from the President would be even remotely a good idea? He’s in danger of blowing his entire Presidency, here, and he’s doing it all himself.
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Obama seems to think he'll get credit for the breathtaking scope of his ambition. But unless he sees results, it will have the opposite effect—diluting his clout, exhausting his allies, and emboldening his enemies.

That may be starting to happen. Health-care legislation is still weeks, if not months, from passage, and the bill as it stands could well be a windfall for the very insurance and drug companies it was supposed to rein in. Climate-change legislation (a.k.a. cap-and-trade) is almost certainly dead for this year, which means that American negotiators will go empty-handed to the Copenhagen summit in December —pushing the goal of limiting carbon emissions even farther into the distance. In the spring Obama privately told the big banks that he was going to change the way they do business. It was going to be his way or the highway. But the complex legislation he wants to submit to Congress has little chance of passage this year. Doing Letterman again won't help. It may boost the host's ratings, Mr. President, but probably not your own.

One of my major pet peeves is that though he CLAIMS he wants to “look forward,” in reality he looks back and blames everything on Bush. News flash, PresBo, the election is over and Bush hasn’t been President for the past nine months or so. It’s time to stop trying to blame others, step up to the plate, and pretend you’re an adult and responsible for your own actions.

There is only so much political mileage that can still be had by his reminding the world that he is not George W. Bush. It was the winning theme of the 2008 campaign, but that race ended nearly a year ago. The ex-president is now more ex than ever, yet the current president, who vowed to look forward, is still reaching back to Bush as bogeyman.

He did it again in that U.N. speech. The delegates wanted to know what the president was going to do about Israel and the Palestinian territories. He answered by telling them what his predecessor had failed to do. This was effective for his first month or two. Now it is starting to sound more like an excuse than an explanation.

Winning the Presidency isn’t an accomplishment in and of itself… what matters is what he DOES with it. And so far… he’s not doing so hot. He ignores public opinion to push liberal agenda items, demonizes those who honestly disagree with his policies, and can’t even recognize a tax that is clearly labeled as such. He wants to push government into everything, from running our health care to government-owned automobile companies.

Somebody please tell me again WHY we should be glad he won last year? Because I sincerely HOPE this isn't the CHANGE we're really in for.