Today, Obama drew only 4 thousandGerman news papers reported that were approximately 2, 000 were union workers highly "encouraged" to attend. Another estimated 1,000 were college students in Berlin who were given the day off if they attended by their professors. The other 1,000 were made up of police, security and staff of all the VIP and politicians that were there.
The speeches in Belfast and Berlin smack of Obama trying to piggyback on past historic events – the Good Friday Agreement and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It didn’t work because Obama’s own contribution to history has been so limited and so flawed. The big problem is that Obama still hasn’t rhetorically moved on from 2008: he still talks like a candidate, dishing out clichés about overcoming the odds with hope and teaching the world to sing. But he’s lost the saintliness of his earlier incarnation as a candidate. He is now a President, dithering around Syria, tarred by various security state scandals and marred by the general air that the US has lost its will to lead.Maybe that's why he's going to Africa.......to find that old black magic!
Barack Obama has lost his magic. There’s nothing unusual about that: Reagan and Clinton looked tired at the dawn of their second terms, too. But the difference with Obama is that he’s nothing without his magic. Without that winning story of hope and change overcoming the odds – without the adulation of crowds who believe – he’s just another lame duck President trying to find something to do for the next four years.
Dr.Tim Stanley is a historian of the United States.
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