Obama Buyer’s Remorse

As President Obama’s support continues to dwindle among the electorate, the Obama White House continues its focus on attempting to control every facet of the executive branch to the very last detail.  And yet, despite this absolute obsession over control, the Obama White House continues to teeter on the brink of chaos.

Case in point – this past week we learned of a heated debate between Attorney General Eric Holder and CIA Director Leon Panetta.  Panetta is furious over Holder’s insistence of a public investigation against CIA operatives who engaged in potentially questionable interrogation tactics.  President Obama had months prior indicated he wanted to move on from the issue, that such an investigation would harm CIA morale and potentially endanger American security.  Now Obama’s Attorney General is forging ahead, an effort many Washington DC insiders are describing as a blatant attempt to run yet another anti-Bush campaign in the midst of Obama’s falling poll numbers – and Leon Panetta is rightfully outraged over such politicizing of American security.

A more experienced and well run White House would never allow such a dispute between high level officials become public.  This White House does in fact appear intent on utilizing the debate to score points with the liberal left in the country – but at what cost?  Republicans will be outraged, but so too will the Independents, and it is that kind of glaring miscalculation that the Obama White House has repeatedly made on other critical issues such as the stimulus bill and healthcare.

And yet, perhaps America is now simply reaping what it has sown?  Barack Obama had no real record of political accomplishment beyond winning a couple elections.  As a senator, both at the state and federal level, he accomplished little, and led even less.  He was a fantastic campaigner, but as president, has proven himself a far less capable leader, and the two figures most responsible for creating the Obama myth, adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, are now scrambling to revitalize this myth in the midst of an increasingly skeptical public.  Since Inauguration Day, Obama’s approval rating has fallen 20 points, a stunning decline for a politician who so recently, appeared nearly invincible.

The Obama White House is a mishmash of disorganization.  Over 30 czars, a multitude of advisers, and a president who, when removed from his teleprompted message, makes such shocking verbal errors as pointing out that it is the government-run post office and not UPS or FedEx that is always having problems when he is attempting to convince voters that that government should also run healthcare.  A president who gave the Queen of England an iPod, while simultaneously apologizing for America’s past arrogance to the world. 

America is currently undergoing a powerful sense of political buyer’s remorse.  This is not the change voters signed up for.  The more citizens learn of President Obama and his White House of confusion, the less they like.