Team Obama Shows Dangerous Penchant for Hubris: Albert R. Hunt - Bloomberg

Therese

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

An interesting commentary on civility and manners

Or the lack of both, depending on how you look at it.

I seem to remember outrage when members of the opposition chose to skip the SOTU address and when one left a prayer breakfast without listening to the president's campaign speech.

Will those same members of the Obama support machine be outraged by the president's action?

Probably not

I wonder of it is because Jeb Bush is white? /s

No that cannot be it because there are no racists on the left, well we will just have to puzzle out this conundrum.

Things are going well for President Obama and the Democrats.

Things are going poorly for Republicans and the right-wing.

That ought to tell you something about each group and their actions. Those two facts explain a lot about the two groups and their actions.

Perhaps "Team Obama" will succumb to hubris; that's a non-partisan affliction common among the powerful, and even the non-authoritarian successful. The author of the seeded editorial/opinion seems to concerned with style and style-points. There is much, much more to successful policy and actions than posture and make-believe. Every time substance will have better results than pretend/posture. Every time.

Seems like the author is worried about the polls that show that Obama is doing well and so is pulling things out of the air to make it seem like Obama is going to crash.

You know things are going badly for the Republicans when all they can do is dwell on fantasies of what Obama has/is/will be doing.