Conan the Campaigner

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American Thinker:

Even liberals admit that Obama is not much at the job of governance. When in Washington, he leaves governance to leaders in Congress, as he did to Reid and Pelosi in the first years of this presidency. Or else he flounders about, shifting from one position to another trying to find something that works, or he morphs into the churlish scorn whose unpleasant side comes out when he doesn't get his way.

On the campaign trail, it is said, another side of the President comes out. This is where he is at his best: affable and relaxed as he delivers a prepared speech to partisan audiences. Escaping the day-to-day conflicts of Washington, he reverts to the charming, hopeful, nonthreatening persona that got him elected.

But looking more closely at this persona, we realize that Obama the campaigner is not a better man after all. If anything, when he is out there belittling his opponents in front of liberal supporters, Obama is even more uncivil than he is in Washington. On the campaign trail, he seems to actually believe he is the transformative figure he claims to be. Escaping the constraints of practical politics, he becomes a truly frightening figure: a self-deluded utopian who seems to think he is Moses, Christ, Gandhi, and JFK combined.

That's what you would expect, isn't it, of a President who confines his appearances to hand-picked audiences like Facebook employees, Al Sharpton's National Action Network, and a company that produces federally subsidized windmills (Gamesa Corporation)? Not a lot of opposition from conservatives there, or at a Chicago event for DNC insiders or at SONY studios in Los Angeles. Those are the kinds of gigs where Obama can sit back and be himself, and, believe me, he does.