Is Pres. Obama losing touch?

Cast your mind back to the US Presidential lection campaign of 2008 when,  then Senator Barack Obama, was busy capturing the imagination of the entire world. Who can forget the poster above which captured the essence of his campaign. Unsurprisingly, Senator Obama was elected President of the US by a resounding majority, trouncing his opponent, Senator John McCain by a huge margin. President Obama’s campaign slogan was simply “Yes we can” and many will argue that since coming to office he has achieved a number of good things for the US and the world in general.

However, something is missing from Obama, the President and there are many opinions as to what the missing ingredient is. Is it his lack fighting spirit, which many Presidents before him seem to posses? Is it failure to perhaps convert his energetic rhetoric of the campaign into “visible” action? I put the term visible in inverted comma’s because although he may have done a lot since comig into office, he has shied away from blowing his own trumpet. Could it be that even as President, he continues to preach just like he was during his election campaign, instead just simply connecting emotionally with the people? Perhaps it is all of the above.

What I know for sure is that President Obama has failed to make me stop dead in my track to listen to what he has to say, like Senator Obama used to. President Obama has failed to capture my imagination, like Senator Obama did. Like him or not, one of the things that our President, Zuma seems to do very well, is connect emotionally with his audience by telling stories and laughing (sometimes at himself). Perhaps President Obama needs to tell more stories about his Presidency and laugh with his audience more. President Obama needs to stop being a Senator running for election and start being a President who runs the most powerful country in the world.