Barrel Strength

No matter what the political persuasion, one thing almost everybody can agree on about Obama is his monumental ego and narcissistic tendency that knows no bounds.   Peggy Noonan, one of the members of the growing band of Sorry-I-voted-for-Obama movement, noted the following after Brown’s election.

President Obama carried Massachusetts by 26 points on Nov. 4, 2008. Fifteen months later, on Jan. 19, 2010, the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration, his party’s candidate lost Massachusetts by five points. That’s a 31-point shift. Mr. Obama won Virginia by six points in 2008. A year later, on Nov. 2, 2009, his party’s candidate for governor lost by 18 points—a 25 point shift. Mr. Obama won New Jersey in 2008 by 16 points. In 2009 his party’s incumbent governor lost re-election by four points—a 20-point shift.

One would think that this would be enough to knock some sense into Obama.  Or the fact that according to Gallup he is the most divisive president at the end of the first-year, boasting a a 65% difference between Republicans’ and Democrats’ job approval rating, would cause one to rethink facts.  But no, Barry trundles merrily along.

In a report today Rep. Marion Berry discussed with Obama the possibility of a wide-ranging defeat in the upcoming mid-term election.  Rep. Berry stated the following.

“I’ve been doing that with this White House, and they just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all,” Berry said. “They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.”

It is far too early to predict a 54-seat swing, which happened in 1994, but Obama’s reaction leads one to believe he is unlikely to have learned much from previous debacles.  It is instructive to recall that Bill Clinton was a politician who was at ease with the voters  and easily connected with them, as opposed to Obama, who is frequently viewed as detached, cold and aloof by the electorate.  All this from a guy who can’t even speak to sixth graders without help from TOTUS.