Low Information Voters? How about a Low Information President?

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There  is a real possibility, a strong likelihood, that President Obama knows nothing  of the nuts and bolts, the details and realities of the positions he  promotes.  He rides the Starship Air Force One, thrills adolescent crowds  and frames himself with federal employees  while orating vapid clichés dowsed in demagoguery.

He  drives the fancy car but needs help filling it with gas and couldn’t point to  the air filter if you popped the hood. Imagery sans leadership.

Celebrity  is the accomplishment here, and adoration is the metric.  Polls demonstrate  people approve more of him and less of his execution of the responsibilities of  office. This Presidency is therefore wrapped in a managed personal imagery that  supersedes the measure of ability.

He  speaks yet says nothing. He exists before the camera scripted to generalities  and clichés. Once this is understood, we can sense there is no more. True  leadership and real understanding of the issues just aren’t there.  Recall  a few instances.

There  was the Paul Ryan Obamacare  summit  in which Ryan began to peel back the skin on the Affordable Care Act.  Ryan began reading from the bill  itself, and as he did Obama’s eyes glazed over.  When Ryan was finished,  Obama had nothing of substance to say.  Dismissive and aloof, he pushed out  a short narrative of banalities and bromides.

Did  Obama know enough to defend his own program?

There  was also the Univision interview in which  Obama declared  that George W. Bush began Fast and Furious back in 2007.  This is  inherently false.  There was a similar program, granted.  But, the  program had ended and, by the way, the program attempted to capture gun runners.  Two glaring differences.  But did Obama know these facts? At first one  thinks there is a twisting of the truth by the President.  But, there is a  strong possibility that indeed he believed what he said based on what he had  been told.

Dr.  Benjamin Carson revealed his version of the world and the shortfalls of  Obamacare standing a few feet from the President himself.  Obama’s body  language, as he was forced to bear witness, spoke volumes. This was the closest  to an exchange between Obama and a critic of his beloved health insurance initiative to date.  But there was no  exchange.  There was no defense. There was no telepromptered pre-authored  clichéd speech to deliver.

Regarding  the Benghazi incident, Obama suggested that for him to dig in and learn the  details and facts of that 9/11 day would be to somehow interfere with an FBI  investigation, an investigation that to date has provided nil. Wouldn’t,  shouldn’t a President’s attitude be more in the vein of “I will find out what  happened and I will report back to the nation.”?

He  declares that he has cut over a trillion dollars, somewhere.  He has been  told this and it seems he believes it.

He  will not engage a critic and nor defend his positions in detail.  He can  not apparently even engage a questioning reporter nor engage his congressional  opposition. In my opinion, he couldn’t last 5 minutes in a fact-driven analysis  of that which he promotes. The President doesn’t meet with the political  opposition to initiate compromise because he simply couldn’t keep up his end of  the argument. His game is to broadcast insipid generalities wrapped in  demagoguery and reliant on an arrangement that disallows honest  questioning.  Can we recall anytime that Mr. Obama had control and  knowledge of the facts of an issue?

I  maintain that Obama really believes that George Bush started Fast and  Furious.

I  maintain that Paul Ryan has read more of the Obama Care bill than the  President.

I  think he actually believes he has trimmed over 1 Trillion dollars from the  budget and that the sequestration is a “real” cut rather than merely a trimming  of the rate of increase in federal spending.

The  president operates only on the information he is given. That is  understandable.  But does he sense that perhaps his information is  flawed?  Does he care? Not likely.

Obama’s  non-engagement and aversion to compromise is actually seated in his complete  lack of knowledge, and therefore inability to defend his agenda or even forge a  compromise.  He is inactive in leadership and compromise because he simply  lacks the ability and issue knowledge to lead and compromise.

It  is becoming apparent that the President is purposely kept in a bubble by his  handlers, protected by the aegis of screened questioning. He is merely a one  trick pony with the trick being nothing but media-enabled and unrebutted  declarative demagoguery delivered to fawning audiences and broadcast to the  clinically under informed.

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