Obama's Winter Fall from Grace: BARGAINING

Obama’s Winter Fall From Grace: BARGAINING

Third in a series on the collapse of the Obama presidency, its causes, and its effects on Barack Obama, effects comparable to the 5 stages of grief. Part One dealt with denial, Part Two with anger. Today:

BARGAINING

In the 5 stages of Obama’s grief over his failed presidency, after denial and anger comes bargaining.

We bargain all the time.

The lover bargains with his beloved when she no longer wants to be his beloved. The workman bargains with his employer when he tries to wheedle more pay. The supplicant bargains with God, often on his death bed.

And the politician bargains when he compromises with his fellow politicians and bargains with the electorate when he campaigns for election.

In Obama’s case, he is bargaining out of desperation: A new Gallup poll shows the incumbent president in a statistical dead heat with . . . every Republican, i.e. against any generic Republican. Worse, Mr. Generic Rep leads Obama 45%-31% among American independents: http://bit.ly/bLoz41.

Those sad realities for Obama in and of themselves represent a sad commentary on the status of his presidency.

Compound them with doubts within his own party and things look even worse: “He says ‘I’m for clean coal,’ and then he says . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1505)