I think I have a new one. President Nomad. He's on the road 24/7 like some kind of door to door huckster selling elixir.
Can this guy spend a night in The White House?
Now he's off to Mexico...........
Reporting from Washington -- When Americans learned that unemployment had reached its highest level in a quarter of a century last week, President Obama was midway through a star turn in Europe. And next week, with barely time to pack fresh shirts and refuel Air Force One, he's off again -- first to Mexico, then to a summit meeting in the Caribbean.
It's the sort of thing that can get a political leader into trouble, jetting out of town while the home front suffers.Obama strategists see his foreign travel as satisfying another domestic political need -- the longing of many Americans to view their president as a global leader commanding respect for himself and his country.Carville said people had been calling White House aides to deliver the message that "foreign trips aren't what they used to be. We got a recession back here!"
But even some of Obama's supporters are nervous about the timing of the trips. They worry that meetings with the queen and other bits of stagecraft may suggest a detachment from the concerns of ordinary people.
James Carville, an architect of former President Clinton's victory in 1992, said his guess was that the weeklong, multi-country visit would be a "neutral" to "a slight positive" for Obama but could turn out to be a mistake.
Personally, I think this is demonstrative of one of Obama's character flaws that was apparent from his resume. The guy can't stay in one place for long. It doesn't matter if it's community organizer, senator, anything, he's repeatedly shown an incapacity to take a job and actually accomplish something before moving on. He's worse than a college basketball coach.
Now he's stuck with the job of The Freakin' Presidency. As one guy told me after the election, "don't worry he's never held any job for four years."
Hell it looks like he's done with this one after a 70 days.
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