Obama Tired, Depressed and Bored. Can He Reboot?
Interviews with the presidents staff members revealed the last year has taken its toll on the president. He appears tired, bored and is unhappy with his endless meetings on Ebola and National Security crisis of the day. He has a loathing of Washington and there hasn’t been much need for him to do what he likes the most, campaigning. He was relegated as a pariah on the campaign trail and it hurt.
The question is, Can he reboot? As with the others, one advisor who spoke on the basis of anonymity told that there was a sense of fatalism with Obama. Some felt as though he was already giving up. Senator Corker spoke on the record when he said, “It is almost as if he is wishing for a six-year term instead of an eight-year term.”
“Administration officials tell us that Obama’s political and policy teams are planning a big counterattack if the Republicans win the Senate—introducing a slate of legislative proposals and executive actions on immigration, infrastructure and early childhood education that are popular with the Democratic base and that he will dare the GOP to oppose.”
Does the president have to regard this as a “counterattack?” Can’t he regard it as a proposal that the two entities can work together and vote on to become law? Will it ever happen or is it always regarded as attack-counter attack? Maybe that is why the man is so tired?
Can Obama Reboot - Glenn Thrush and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO Magazine
Interviews with the presidents staff members revealed the last year has taken its toll on the president. He appears tired, bored and is unhappy with his endless meetings on Ebola and National Security crisis of the day. He has a loathing of Washington and there hasn’t been much need for him to do what he likes the most, campaigning. He was relegated as a pariah on the campaign trail and it hurt.
The question is, Can he reboot? As with the others, one advisor who spoke on the basis of anonymity told that there was a sense of fatalism with Obama. Some felt as though he was already giving up. Senator Corker spoke on the record when he said, “It is almost as if he is wishing for a six-year term instead of an eight-year term.”
“Administration officials tell us that Obama’s political and policy teams are planning a big counterattack if the Republicans win the Senate—introducing a slate of legislative proposals and executive actions on immigration, infrastructure and early childhood education that are popular with the Democratic base and that he will dare the GOP to oppose.”
Does the president have to regard this as a “counterattack?” Can’t he regard it as a proposal that the two entities can work together and vote on to become law? Will it ever happen or is it always regarded as attack-counter attack? Maybe that is why the man is so tired?
Can Obama Reboot - Glenn Thrush and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO Magazine
