Democrats See Obama As Incompetent, Uninvolved

An on air conversation between CNN’s John King and Politico’s Maggie Haberman relied primarily on feedback from his fellow Democrats to portray an image of an “incompetent” Obama, seemingly not all that involved with the mechanisms of big government central to so many of the Democrat’s political arguments.

“Forget for a moment that Republican outrage,” said King on his CNN show this morning. “More and more Democrats in key 2014 races are calling for the president to get a spine, they say, and fire his Veterans Affairs secretary. And what more and more Democrats are saying privately is scathing, calling the president and his team detached, flat footed, even incompetent.

“Maggie Haberman,” said King turning to a panelist, “that’s what strikes me, what democrats are saying privately in the wakes of the healthcare.gov problems, they see a president who doesn’t want to take command, doesn’t want to act fast. Raising the competence question. Some Democrats, who believe in government, [are saying] this White House doesn’t appear to have its hand on the lever.”

Haberman of Politico agreed, cited more examples, and added: “All of this adds up to somebody who just doesn’t seem at all involved.”

Theoretically, said perceptions may leave some room for prospective 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to claim she could do better. However, with two years left in his term, if Obama’s stumbling results in America losing even more faith in government, it could provide an opening for Republicans in 2016.

The GOP is already expected to do well in the 2014 mid-terms.

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