The Only Thing That Inspires Obama’s Passion…

…is his own personal ambition. 

I had this thought while considering Obama’s bloodless, tepid reaction to ISIS’ burning alive their captured Jordanian pilot in a cage. He was in what some people like to call his “professorial” mode (as if he’s some kind of scholar!), that is, verbose and emotionally neutral, like a being from another planet observing earth through a telescope and describing phenomena here.

It reminded me of Michael Dukakis’s passionless response to a question during a presidential debate (he was the Democratic Party’s hapless candidate against Bush the Elder that year, 1988) about what kind of punishment he would want for someone who raped and murdered his wife.

Unlike Dukakis, Obama has shown oratorical inspiration and emotional passion in speeches. Namely in the speeches that are about promoting his own advancement. In his presidential campaigns, and in his infamous Democratic Convention speech of 2004 (the real start of his drive to seize the presidency), Obama is impassioned and inspirational (to the fools he dupes, of which I was never one).

The one thing that gets Obama fired up is his own self-advancement.

Obama had gathered a group of docile munchkins who signed up for expensive insurance under his “Affordable Care Act” for a staged “media event” to propagandize for the law. He talked nonstop for about 12 minutes, delivering a monologue about how helpful Obamacare is, as the assembled props, the human mushrooms he gathered, sat still and in silence like good little schoolchildren. Then he said “thank you everybody” and was going to split when the assembled reporters shouted at him about the Jordanian pilot burned alive, forcing Obama to comment. (Note the look of reluctance and weariness at that point.) Then he delivered a brief peroration about ISIS, and swung his answer back to the wonderfulness of his healthcare plan. He contrasts his own "helping folks" (to use Obamaspeak) with ISIS' meanness (which is indisputable, and to which he has no solution except to occasionally intone from his memorized script his intention to "degrade and eventually eliminate" them).

Obama “denounces” (kinda) “Islamic State’s” sadistic murder of captured Jordanian pilot.

[Full video at “Obama on reports ISIS murdered Jordanian pilot.“]

  

                                                                               Here’s another angle on his answer.