The not so great communicator

Nevertheless, we return to Borger’s question. Where is the communicator we thought we knew? More aptly put, was he ever the man they thought they knew?…

That too reminds us of Obama’s questionable instincts on the grand scale. This is a candidate who first sustained majority support after the market crashed on September 15. Yet Obama focused his first year on myriad liberal dreams over the economic crisis. Unlike most Americans, his priorities did not change with the crisis. Obama never even offered the great speech to match this Great Recession. And that was supposedly his specialty.

It’s not that Obama is bad at the trade. He simply falls far short of the hype. This is not a man “misunderestimated,” to borrow a term from his predecessor. And that is partly Obama’s own fault.

This is the same man who, on the cusp of his national address at the 2004 Democratic convention, told a reporter “I’m LeBron, baby.” This is the president who reportedly told Democratic lawmakers “the big difference here and in ’94, was you’ve got me.” “I’m pretty good at politicking,” Obama recently told supporters at a fundraiser.