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What Do We Do With Barack Obama?

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There’s a guilty sense, too. People are edging away from him because they now feel they got it so wrong. It’s buyer’s remorse with recrimination—self-recrimination.

How did everybody get it so wrong is a question many people seem to be asking themselves—not least of all these people slinking out of the White House.

It is not just that he has turned out to be something different. In fact, reasonably, he isn’t that different. The more powerful sense of remorse or at least sheepishness may come from people now asking themselves how and why they came to think of him as different than he was. More confounding, they may not really now be able to remember just who exactly they thought he was.

So to refocus the story: Some mass misperception put Barack Obama in the White House and now nobody knows what to do with him.

Can there be a more awkward situation?

Full article @ Newer.com

Yep!  Media made him into something much bigger than he was.. Of course 8-flags prop also helped. 

Not mass misperception, rather mass obfuscation. 

I think Obama got a lot of "not Hillary" "not a Clinton" and "not McCain" voters.  People forgot to ask who has demonstrated that they can get the work done.

Big lesson.  We must be vigilant and look for specifics in their rhetoric, and assess a person's capability to get any of it accomplished. Do they have a record of succcessfully governing in any office for any significant length of time? How did they come out of it.  All are questions to ask closely.