"..........How does a serious president handle this? He steps out of the spotlight, curtails the golf games with celebrities, persuades the wife to postpone further multi-million dollar vacations, abjures any serious or epoch-making speeches or public efforts. He lets other, lesser figures carry the public load for awhile....
This strategy would very likely work for the current chief executive as well. But I ask you -- does any of that sound like Barack Obama?
He can't back out of sight because of a little thing called "ObamaCare." He let the help handle that and it didn't work. Now it's attached as firmly as a ball and chain, and since he lacks both the grace and wit to cut his losses, it will dog his presidency for all the time that's left to it.
There's also the fact that he's been carried by media, mentor figures, and more shadowy elements all the way back to his stint at Harvard. It's not that he's grown to believe his own PR, but that he's never believed anything else. There is no depth to Obama -- the public figure is all you get, and anything that threatens the image threatens the whole man. So he will flail, and protest, and posture -- looking more asinine all the time. Look for plenty of PR events -- momentous speeches, vast promises, attempts to pull on the mantle of greater men, mountains giving birth to mice.
And how should the opposition handle it? Nothing simpler -- hammer it. Don't let an opportunity pass. Don't let him get away with anything. This is a God-given rent in virtual armor that many thought was utterly impregnable. We need to take as much advantage of it as possible......
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Cathartic. You mean as in a medicine that causes the bowels to move or
a : purification or purgation of the emotions (as pity and fear) primarily through art
b : a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension
c: elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression
It would be somewhat like “c” if there was a pubbie plan or voice or anything in the organization having any merit at all or vision of anything but more of the same. There is no change. The politicos don’t want it. They will not change and must be expunged. We are at that awkward stage. Things don’t hurt enough people badly enough for change to be forced.
a : purification or purgation of the emotions (as pity and fear) primarily through art
b : a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension
c: elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression
It would be somewhat like “c” if there was a pubbie plan or voice or anything in the organization having any merit at all or vision of anything but more of the same. There is no change. The politicos don’t want it. They will not change and must be expunged. We are at that awkward stage. Things don’t hurt enough people badly enough for change to be forced.
