A post yesterday at Riehl World View contends that there is
one fundamental reason Obama is stumbling badly in office and seeing his popularity collapse
and that that reason is
most of our Presidents had either experienced, or dealt significantly and directly with many of the complex elements that comprise American society beforehand. Obama actually led a mostly insulated life
and that
From Reagan, to both Bushes, Carter, who failed for different reasons, and a mostly successful Bill Clinton, these were individuals exposed to broad elements of America as a whole as they came up. That isn’t the case for Obama, an individual who has admitted to being bored by suburbs and with no real claim to having experienced rural America very much
The bored part I can certainly attest to after watching his statement on the Detroit bomber. I think the other parts were validated by Obama himself when he made the remark about scared, bitter Americans who cling to their God, their guns and their religion.
It probably doesn’t help much either that one of Obama’s closest confidants and literary compadre was Bill Ayers, who aspired to what the 9–11 hijackers actually accomplished: blow up financial centers and the Pentagon.
As I read the Riehl post I kept getting the feeling I’d read this story before and I found out that I had. It was when I read about Maximilian I of Mexico, another ruler who never understood the country he ruled over. Eerily familiar.
See if you agree. The Riehl post is HERE and the Wikipedia entry on Maximilian I is HERE.
Oh! Benito Juarez, the man who deposed Maximilian, was a Republican.
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