Why 'WTF Has Obama Done So Far.com' Isn't Helping Obama
Over the last couple of weeks, my Facebook feed has been getting barraged with links to a Pro-Obama site called What The Fuck Has Obama Done So Far. Go there and you will find a bunch of antagonistic and loaded questions, portraying Obama as a worthless do-nothing president. But each of these questions is met with one of the president's accomplishments. The cumulative effect is designed to simultaneously engage Obama's detractors while arming his supporters with factoids to be spewed across Facebook walls, water coolers and my heart-shaped bed. (Yes, I like to argue politics with sexy tied-up liberals. What of it?)But for me, the website succeeds in accomplishing only one thing: proving, without dispute, that Barack Obama is a failed politician. That such a website even needs to exist is proof of that failure. And those democrats hoping to bolster his presidency with a sassy url have fundamentally misunderstood the American people. Now saying someone is a failed politician is not the same thing as saying they're a terrible person or even, necessarily, a poor president. It means they're bad at the game of politics -- an unfortunate, but necessary, skill for any leader. A true presidential politician articulates a vision for America, wins over the public support and then gets the Congress to follow him because everyone wants to be on the winning team. And by that standard, Barack Obama has not met his objectives. How do you know? Because after two years in office, he needs the liberal devout to engage in an Internet campaign to explain what he's even done.
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