Obama's Multiple Personality Disorder

It seems as though Two President Obamas have come out this week as he the President has traveled all along the West Coast, attending rallies in Portland, backyard chats in Seattle and fund-raisers in Palo Alto. The first Obama, Obama One, is the high energy campaigner from 2008, yelling “Yes, we can!” and starting chants in the crowd as they hoped for a better tomorrow. The second Obama who came out, Obama Two looks like the president, we as the American people have seen in the past two years, who holds talks about innovation and new forms of energy. Obama One does big events to fire up the Democratic base, that core group of African-Americans, young people and women who ushered Mr. Obama into office two years ago. Obama Two does small gatherings to fill the last of the democratic funds and $30,000-a-plate dinners attended by the richest of the rich of his supporters. Despite the two different personalities, it is the same guy playing both parts. The reason for the difference is the audience. The president feels the need to appeal to two vastly disparate audiences as its part of his and the White House’s last efforts to avoid a Democratic wipeout at the polls.

I find it interesting that Obama has to have these two completely different personalities to win the votes that he needs. His changing of his style and the way he approaches a group is almost misleading. The person he is with a group in Portland may be entirely different than the person he is with a group in Seattle. It’s a very smart political strategy by I find it sad that a political candidate cannot be the same person 100% of the time and still win a election. However by being these two people he does in fact enable himself to appeal to and satisfy the different audiences in which he is presenting himself to. In the end politics is all about saying what the audience wants to hear, not what they should hear. Politics is a game, and president Obama is doing whatever he can to win it.