The thing that bothers me most about the badness that was Obama's performance is the shock so many people have over it.
This isn't anything to I feel very happy about saying, but anyone who wants to go back to my 2008 comments about my greatest fears of Obama's personality can verify that we all should have seen this coming.
The books from Taibi and Suskind and others with behind-the-scenes access to the President and the inner circle spelled it out in very plain text: Barack Obama has intellect, but no vision, no passion, no fight, no urgency, and no political instincts at all.
He is more concerned about behaving respectful to everyone than anything else. He wants everyone to like him - never realizing that many people relying on him to take up their causes prefers a fighter to an adorable door mat. No one likes bullies, but no one follows 'leaders' afraid of conflict.
The last 4 years of campaigns and record in the White House presaged this debate performance. Anyone paying attention to all facets of the man's work is completely unsurprised.
And don't expect much in the next debate, either. My prediction is Obama will announce something like, 'after the debate, go to ____ website to see where any of us has not told the truth' in lieu of actually taking romney on directly. It'd be great if I'm wrong, but I'm rarely let down when predicting this President turning tail from a fight.
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