By: Michael Oya @thepamphlet
"Our politics and mainstream society are suffering from a schizophrenic atmosphere..."
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President Barrack Obama has found that even though the election is over, if he doesn't stay on the campaign trail his support begins to slip away. Obama is finding that the toughest issues he's having to overcome, are largely PR problems. On June 4th the President made his third trip to Louisiana in order to let BP, but more importantly Americans, know that he was going to make sure the damage was repaired by BP.Recently, popular media has been pushing the President to be more emotional, and to show that he cares. NPR's Juan Williams has become a FOX celebrity, by saying, "We need somebody who can throw their fist down on the table and scream", or nobody will believe he's doing anything about the BP oil spill.
Americans are demanding that Obama be on call to lend his voice to every issue. That's a tough job, especially when the extremely polarized media and politics of today mean that he is constantly being campaigned against on every issue.
Why does America and much of the world demand to see so much of Barrack Obama? It's not enough that he fix the problems, while being perfectly diplomatic, he also has to laugh and cry when he's supposed to.
All this PR is distracting the President, the public and everyone in between from paying attention to real results. Polls and punditry have taken the place of accurate depictions of the facts. "Approval ratings are critical to [President Obama]'s sense of authority", said Williams. A president shouldn't be constantly catering to polls that, in reality, only reflect the public's limited knowledge of real issues.
Our politics and mainstream society are suffering from a schizophrenic atmosphere which is keep them from, taking a realistic look at the way things are and what they can do to improve them. They're cycling between personalities trying to find the one that looks the right way instead of just doing the right thing.
Our media is attempting to try to force our president into the same sort of pattern. They don't care much about what's actually being done, especially if he's not saying the right things or expressing the right sentiments. Juan Williams came out and said directly that he though what America wants from Obama is, "a stronger sense of that emotional factor, maybe more than anything else".
United States - Obama - In Perspective
Juan Williams on Obama - Newsbuster.org
