Wasn't Obama Supposed to be Charismatic?

What happened to Obama's awesome charisma. Maybe he never really had any. Maybe his legions of disciples were simply awed that a black man could be so - well, like them, that it was their own reflections - reflections of their own awesomeness, their self-righteous, universalistic, 21st-centuriness - that mesmerized them. That and some well crafted speeches and an appealing delivery before a teleprompter. But the man himself is a zero when it comes to personality, and his limited level of achievement in his pre-Axelrod life should have been a signal that maybe he's not all that.

At any rate, he was supposed to hit the hustings and take the Health Care cause directly to the American people and bypass all that news reporting slanted against him and rouse the troops. Yawn. Seems like a ragtag collection of malcontents with trucker hats make more compelling viewing than Barry's lame pontificating.

Oh, and notice the market the last couple days? Nothing but good news on the manufacturing and housing front, and the market is cratering. All of a sudden everyone's noticed that no one's buying anything, and the alleged recovery will be stillborn. Good think Obama's putting all his energy on health care and civil rights enforcement - that'll sure help Americans find good work.