President Barack Obama got his first political office, in the Illinois State Senate, by stabbing his mentor, Alice Palmer, in the back. (See my August 05, 2008 post.) The new book by Bob Woodward demonstrates that President Obama is still capable of doing nasty things to former allies and friends: Peter Orszag, a former member of the Obama team, took a job with the New York Times, hardly an anti-Obama sheet, and wrote a column making one suggestion as to a weakness in “Obamacare”: it does not handle the medical malpractice problem. Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest political friends, who presumably speaks for the President, told Orszag as a result that he had “burned his bridges.” (See this posting, for example.)
By contrast, Mitt Romney has no such record. In fact, he is known for such deeds as personally loading his car with firewood to help a single mother who had her heat cut off.
Yet, people keep giving pollsters their opinions that President Obama is “more likeable” than Governor Romney. I simply do not understand it. Romney is a warm, generous man; Obama the sort of cold-hearted politician who will shaft anyone who does not grovel at his feet. Why do people consider Obama “more likeable” than Romney? It boggles the mind.
By contrast, Mitt Romney has no such record. In fact, he is known for such deeds as personally loading his car with firewood to help a single mother who had her heat cut off.
Yet, people keep giving pollsters their opinions that President Obama is “more likeable” than Governor Romney. I simply do not understand it. Romney is a warm, generous man; Obama the sort of cold-hearted politician who will shaft anyone who does not grovel at his feet. Why do people consider Obama “more likeable” than Romney? It boggles the mind.
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