en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/748478 Comments by RobertEden http://biggovernment.com/prahe/2009/12/31/barack-obama-and-the-exhausted-presidency/#IDComment50379767 What follows if President Obama realizes that he's not up to the job, and then gives evidence that he knows it? Is it humanly possible that a president could simultaneously change the character of his presidency and at the same time conceal all evidence that he thinks he is not up to the job? If the magnitude of the failure is already great, the public consequences of such a revelation would be a tsunami of resentment, certain to drive him to resign in disgrace. So he would be compelled to conceal such evidence, and behave like a Machiavellian, creating or seizing on emergencies, relying on deeds rather than speeches, and hoping to exploit the powers of the presidency which he has not tapped so far. Is there anything in his field of vision that offers an opportunity to turn the political world upside down? Well, sure; but seizing those opportunities would require him to do without his only remaining sources of support, to out-Bush Bush and double-cross all his friends. Audacity of that kind would be more than Napoleonic - Napoleon himself apparently lacked it on his 18th Brumaire. Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:54:49 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/prahe/2009/12/31/barack-obama-and-the-exhausted-presidency/#IDComment50379767