Is Barack Obama the new Daddy Bush? Say it ain't so...
"President Bill Clinton could certainly "feel your pain" while Mr Bush sometimes struggled to hold back tears. Mr Obama is more like President George Bush Snr, who famously communicated his concern for people by blurting out: "Message - I care.""
Says an opinion piece in the Telegraph.
Nearly everything that Bush jr did for 8 years was ill-advised, ill-conceived and plain horrible. But no-one can argue he was not passionate about what he did. With Obama, his determination to be proper in process and his PBS-style detachment make him very hard to read.
Even as an Obama supporter, I'd have to say his flatness in office - contrasted with his dynamism on the campaign trail - is frustrating. I'm not a moron who needs my president to talk to me at an 8th-grade level, appeal to my 'gut' and parse reality like it's an episode of Days of Our Lives. But Obama may be tacking too far the opposite direction. How does the WH expect to galvanize support if Obama himself doesn't seem particularly fired up about anything?
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