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Obama’s Rhetorical Skill Now His Biggest Liability

By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 14 2013

There’s a deep, lusty irony to Barack Obama being undone by his own inability to keep quiet. After all, the President owes his ascension to the White House almost entirely to an oratorical ability that was regarded as near-magical back in 2008. Today, “near-fatal” might be a better characterization. A funny thing happens to presidents with the passage of time. No matter their initial appeal, they virtually always wear out their welcome. If anything, Obama has likely accelerated that process via his ubiquity. You can’t augment the media saturation typical of any presidency…

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