Marcus Aurelius
02-27-2013, 09:39 AM
I've seen more and more pieces on HuffPo painting The One in a negative light. Honeymoon may be ending.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/obama-celebrity-president_b_2760776.html
Obama, Our Celebrity President, Faces Real World Test
The downside of this Celebrity Presidency is not yet known. But it will be tested this spring and summer in a series of budget crises that amount to a reality show drama about leadership -- with real-world consequences for all Americans.
So the show's plot is simple: Can a popular president, recently reelected and reigning supreme culturally and socially, master -- for the sake of prosperity and his vision of a just society -- the sclerotic tribal dynamics of Washington?
The president doesn't hide his disdain for Congress, for the folkways of traditional Washington, for the petty egos in Congress and the media. He has unified the Democrats under his banner, but he doesn't think they need to be tended to personally.
Celebrity won't help him put all of the fiscal pieces together.
As for social media, it is no contest. Republicans are nowhere to be seen in the upper reaches of Twitter, while the president ranks fifth (http://twittercounter.com/pages/100), surrounded by other cultural icons such as Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey.
Maybe those three could help him craft a big budget deal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/obama-celebrity-president_b_2760776.html
Obama, Our Celebrity President, Faces Real World Test
The downside of this Celebrity Presidency is not yet known. But it will be tested this spring and summer in a series of budget crises that amount to a reality show drama about leadership -- with real-world consequences for all Americans.
So the show's plot is simple: Can a popular president, recently reelected and reigning supreme culturally and socially, master -- for the sake of prosperity and his vision of a just society -- the sclerotic tribal dynamics of Washington?
The president doesn't hide his disdain for Congress, for the folkways of traditional Washington, for the petty egos in Congress and the media. He has unified the Democrats under his banner, but he doesn't think they need to be tended to personally.
Celebrity won't help him put all of the fiscal pieces together.
As for social media, it is no contest. Republicans are nowhere to be seen in the upper reaches of Twitter, while the president ranks fifth (http://twittercounter.com/pages/100), surrounded by other cultural icons such as Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey.
Maybe those three could help him craft a big budget deal.