Barack Obama is a lame-duck president. Nobody
listens to what he says anymore, nobody is interested in winning his
approval and nobody much cares if he thinks they have “let the country
down”. This is typical for a second-term president who has lost all
their leverage because they’re no longer running for office and
everybody is patiently waiting for the day when he quits the White
House. But Obama's difficult personality has doubled the size of the
challenge. Gloating in victory, adolescent in defeat – the Prez doesn’t
make it easy to work with him. Why should conservative senators give him
a legislative victory after he has spent four years painting them as
knuckle-dragging rednecks who hate women and the poor?
Whatever your position on gun control, yesterday’s events are a
damning indictment of Obama’s presidency – a flash of style, lots of
soaring rhetoric and, when the votes are actually counted, little show
for any of it. America has four more years of this lame-duck president
telling them that it has let him down. If only he could tear up the
Constitution and rule by diktat he might save himself a little
disappointment. Alas, American democracy is a stickler for rules.
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