Barack Obama:
Campaigner in Chief

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During the 2008 campaign, I wrote articles saying Obama did not appear to me to be interested in the job of president, only the title.

For example: Obama is probably the Ron Dellums of the federal executive branch
Jan 16, 2009 Dellums is a former Congressman and Mayor of Oakland, CA, but people complain he’s never in his office and half his administrations have not yet been filled half-way through his administration.

Campaigner in Chief

I recommend you read the London Daily Telegraph October 24, 2009 article, “Obama must stop campaigning and start governing.”

Why would anyone expect that? Obama has never done anything in his life but campaign—which is a heck of a trick for a 48-year-old man with a wife and two kids. He has never governed. He has never managed. He has never led.

In view of Obama’s utter lack of training or experience at governing, managing, or leading, perhaps we should be grateful he is doing none of those things now that he is Commander in Chief.

Didn’t even govern his campaign

Many said he ran a masterful campaign for president and that shows his management skill. The Telegraph says Obama was more Chairman than CEO of the campaign.

I said he did not run the Obama campaign. He was the celebrity spokesperson of the Obama campaign. Who in the right mind would hire Obama to run their campaign? Like he knows about how to get a campaign commercial produced and aired in 24 hours? Or 24 years? David Axelrod ran the campaign and it is he that you would hire if you could.

You might hire Obama to speak at fundraisers, but not to raise funds on a larger scale than working a room and being a celebrity greeter. He has no clue how to do that.

George W. Bush has been derided for having been a cheerleader in college. Obama is not much more than a cheerleader in the Oval Office, (e.g., Yes we can! Fired up!) and he is a lot better cheerleader than George W. Bush ever was on his soberest day.

Obsessed with image

The Telegraph notes that TV comedians are typically quite liberal but they are having a field day portraying Obama as a “do-nothing prevaricator obsessed with his own image.” Truer words were never spoken.

Obama was only interested in doing some presidential work stuff back when he naively thought it would be easy—when he thought his personal charm would work as well in Congress and the electorate as a whole as it did speaking to media and Democratic campaign audiences. When he discovered the job of president was harder than that and that his personal charm was less widely effective than he previously assumed, he said to hell with it and went back to his hobby of the last two decades: campaigning in front of only friendly audiences of supporters all day every day.