Dealing with 'Obama fatigue'

last updated 8 January 2015

Barack Obama has managed to turn himself into “the central figure in American politics,” said E.J. Dionne Jr. in The Washington Post, but his “extraordinary achievement” has come at a price. A recent Pew Research Center study found that 48 percent of those surveyed said they had heard “too much” about Obama, while only 26 percent said that about Republican John McCain. Obama’s challenge now is telling voters who he is while “moving the spotlight off himself.”

Too late, said Jed Babbin in Human Events. “Obama fatigue” has set in. Americans are tired of hearing Obama's “moralizing,” and his talk of how Americans “are a people of improbable hope,” whatever that means. Voters now know that Obama is a "prig," and their doubts will linger unless he shows another side in head-to-head debates.