That’s easy, because he’s a fraud.
To be honest, I’m suprised Politico even published this considering earlier this week they were fawning over his “dazzling smile.”
The ‘meh’ of a salesman — Politico
Barack Obama has still never really sold the American people on anything but himself.
For Obama supporters, the question has become frustrating and frequent: how can the man and the team who made a freshman senator the country’s first black president, and kept people with him despite Great Depression-level unemployment, have failed to truly turn public opinion around on a single difficult issue? […]
Of course, Obama didn’t win the Iowa caucuses just because he gave good speeches, though the good speeches certainly helped, strategists point out. He won because his campaign directed modern politics’ most powerful cult of personality into a blanketed presence with a unified message, using social media and other innovations into identifying and organizing supporters where no one even thought to look before. He became a brand powerful enough to sell T-shirts and puppets and homemade CDs.
But the economy, health care, the stimulus, the attention he says he’s taken to rethinking surveillance and national security, or just about anyone else — not a lot of people are buying any of it, and the president hasn’t tried to do nearly as much selling as he did for his own campaigns.