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Barack Obama is antsy. His aides can see it when he alights from Air Force One from the all-too-occasional campaign trips he has taken this fall. Theres a sigh, an unhappy-camper body language when he finds himself back in the depressing slipstream of Ebola confabs and national-security-crisis-of-the-day meetings. The vibe, according to people in his orbit, is not so much of being checked out as of being fed up.
do like campaigning. ... Its fun, Obama said on Thursday, speaking wistfully at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud in Maine. But the Michaud event was the exception, not the rule. There have been $2 billion in ads shitting on the president and no one to defend him, a senior administration official told us. He is very fired up to get this campaign behind him, to run through the tape.
Obama, for so long the man with the bright future, has hated being relegated to a sidelined pariah in the midtermseven if it is the inevitable lot of a second-termer with approval ratings hovering in the low 40saccording to a dozen current and former Obama advisers we spoke with in recent days. He both resents the narrative that hes basically irrelevant and doesnt much relish the fact that many of his longest-serving staffers, the remnant core of his once-buzzing and brash White House, are strapping themselves to ejector seats. More than anything, Obamas loathing for Washington, an attitude that reads as ennui to outsiders, has hardened into a sullen resignation at being trapped in a broken system he failed to change, advisers told us.
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Listed below are 14 objective facts, without interjecting any opinion, about the state of America under the leadership of President Obama. Every statement is followed up with a link to a source where you can verify these facts for yourself.
http://jeff61b.hubpages.com/hub/14-Facts-About-The-Obama-Presidency-That-Most-People-Dont-Know
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)only a non-Democrat would even think that....
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Haterade in abundance.
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)It's not on our side, folks. It probably relishes the opportunity to see a Republican victory so they can blame it on the President.