Obama Agonistes, Obamacare Agony

Obama Agonistes, Obamacare Agony

There’s something very tragic about President Barack Hussein Obama, something almost as tragic as Obamacare.

Obama isn’t tragic in the traditional literary sense of a protagonist in a tragedy, “A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances,” although some of those elements apply. He’s tragic in the more contemporary sense, more akin to a tragic figure in ”Days of Our Lives” than in classic drama.

Obama lacks the Aristotelian-Sophoclean qualities of a good and highly-esteemed man who suffers in a drama that arouses pity and fear in its audience nor does he fit John Milton’s perfect hero in Samson Agonistes, the tale of Samson the struggler, Samson the combatant. Our president is closer to the perfect dunce.

Barack Hussein Obama is a tragic figure in process of being “brought to ruin” due to his weaknesses and ineptitude and who is destined for his fate because of a fatal character flaw, his inability to perceive that he is in a position he never merited and his inability to understand that he is and has been grossly wrong.

He is struggling and combating due to past errors even as he now, ala Bill Clinton’s abandonment of principle and retreat to the center, seeks compromise on tax issues which in itself is causing him grief from his own Democrat Party and causing him to struggle and combat even more. See “Dems Gone Wild, ‘F*%k the President’ “ (http://tiny.cc/bzntp)

In sum, less than two years in office, Obama has been an abject failure who has been caught in more lies than Richard Nixon could ever conceive, more broken promises and embarrassments, save the blue dress incident, than Bill Clinton could ever imagine, more haplessness and faux pas and English language malapropisms than George Bush committed.

Okay, that last about Obama surpassing GWB . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2991)