Are Barack Obama's Fifteen Minutes Up?

The honeymoon is over for Barack Obama, and he has no one to blame but himself. By trying to be all things to all people, he turned himself into a political Frankenstein, providing a little something to everyone, but not quite a coherent sum of his parts. Some appear mismatched, and he never seemed comfortable in his own skin. Eventually, you got the feeling he was not fully in control of himself, and someone else was pulling the strings.

Problem #1: Obama has no emotion. On the kind side, he is like Hymie the Robot from Get Smart (compare the voices of the two, they are nearly identical in tone and cadence), a lumbering lug who seemed out of place wherever he is. On the extreme side, he is Frankenstein, who lacks the personality and social skills to relate to people. Eventually, he groans and wanders off into the countryside.

Obama has good reason to show little emotion. He is running against Hillary Clinton, who is also charisma-deprived, but makes up for it by raising her voice to make a point, shrieking like a bat. Obama has to be the counter to that. He also knows the last Democratic front runner to get emotional: Howard Dean. It is a characterization that scares many voters, that just beneath the surface, Democrats are raving lunatics who may lose it at any time. They still wonder "We almost elected that?" and see Conan O' Brian showing the head of Hillary Clinton split open to see Satan emerge from inside. Outrageous? Of course, but it does tap into a real concern voters have that there is something seriously wrong with the woman and Democrats in general.