Tired or Disillusioned?

Barack Obama is looking less energetic than 6 months ago.  His speeches, although still honest and well meaning, are less moving and less captivating.  His eyes look a little distant.  And why shouldn’t he when you consider the non-stop nature of this already 18 month long campaign.  But, is Barack tired or disillusioned with our media and the quality of partisan politics?

There is a little worry on either count.  Once President the spot light is on all the time.  The duties of the Office call for the President to work long hours and sacrifice private time (like to ride a bike or visit you home far away from Washington).  And then there are those phone calls at 3 am.  Americans may not want a President that gets tired.

With respect to becoming disillusioned, it is very easy to understand how that can happen, and quite frankly, it would be mystifying if it did not happen.  Spin-meisters, however, will have a field day with that observation and make more of that in preference to talking about real substance. 

Barack now has this issue to deal with.  It would probably be best handled with a return to the positive, energetic speeches he began his campaign with.  He should stick with what is most natural and forget about shots and beer unless he really likes them.  He should state his policy and the objective he seeks and leave it to others to explain how it works and why it will work.  This is the time for the silent Obama supporters to step forward and pick up a piece of the load.   Since Barack can not, by nature, simply look the public in the eye and lie, he needs to keep his message simple and purposeful.  His experts can then go on the talk shows and explain how it works.

There is still a month to go in the primaries and the odds are there will still be two standing.  Late August Democratic convention is a long way off (and it is hard to see how this will end before the convention).  He should take a vacation after the last primary and then come back full of smiles and confidence.  In this election, he appears to be the only candidate that has uncompromised value based objectives for the country.  It would be a shame to lose out on them just because he has become tired or disillusioned.

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