Rubio accuses President Obama of creating “culture of intimidation”. Watch.I don’t doubt this flurry of scandal stories could hurt President Obama, though over the horizon of a few months I’m not at all sure that’s going to be the case. But I simply don’t think this idea of ‘goon Obama’ for lack of a better phrase has much of any potential traction outside of the base of the Republican party and it’s perpetual cult of victimhood.
If you’re going to come tar President Obama I think you need to work with cerebral, out of touch, big government liberalism overreach. Not that I agree with these things but they’re rooted in things that are true, they’re the worst takes on real aspects of who Obama is. But the ‘Chicago-style’ break your legs stuff? Please. This plays with the not-racist right and Republicans who, as I said, live in a cult of victimization and paranoia. But President Obama’s most telling trait is the effort to conciliate and convince opponents, not to threaten them. Believe me, a lot of his top supporters wish he was more bullying.
