White House insiders say President Barack Obama is in “a funk” about what he sees as increasing stagnation and failures surrounding his second term and some worry that the President is becoming more distant and distracted.

“He’s not the same Obama that came to the Oval Office after the 2008 elections,” a senior White House aided confided to friends in an email recently. “I’m worried.”

Chicago Mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel tells friends that the Presidency has changed his longtime friend Obama and many of those changes are “not good.”
We have to face the fact that it has been a long, long time since Barack Obama delivered a speech that captured the hearts and minds,” says Democratic strategist Andy Waring. “The magic is missing and the Obama that mesmerized the nation has left the building.”

With his signature health care “reform” lagging, facing delays and increasingly raising concern, Democrats worry that Obama’s problems could have a ripple effect in next-year’s midterm elections and prospects for retaining control of the White House in 2016.

“Rahm is obviously worried,” a former White House aide tells Capitol Hill Blue.

Political advisers say the charismatic candidate who captured the attention of voters in 2008 is gone and the man who now occupies the White House is “a shell who lacks charisma and cannot focus on details or message.”
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Many point to former first lady, senator and secretary of state Hillary Clinton as the party’s best prospect for Presidency but also she also concerns Democrats who see her tenure in the Obama cabinet as a political drawback.

“It is interesting, don’t you think, that the best Democratic hope for the White House in 2016 is a candidate who lost to the current, beleaguered President in primaries in 2008,” says political adviser Sally Angle.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/48611

Well, cry me a river! It seems that a lot more people have had their eyes opened to the kind of president we have.

Zitat

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“I’m worried.”

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So am I. Maybe another lavish taxpayers vacation will put a spring back in his step. And if that doesn't work, do it again and again until he is happy.

It's the only way to save the Republic.