In 2010, Gerry Maxey Answered Obama's 2016 Question to Ben Rhodes:"WHAT IF WE WERE WRONG?"

^“….. Obama was struggling to understand Donald Trump's victory. 

"What if we were wrong?," the outgoing US President asked aides riding with him in the armoured presidential limousine.

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind.

"Maybe we pushed too far," Obama said. "Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe."

His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Trump. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced.

"Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early," he said.

In the weeks after Trump's election, Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime adviser Benjamin Rhodes. At times, the departing president took the long view, at other points, he flashed anger. He called Trump a "cartoon" figure who cared more about his crowd sizes than any particular policy. And he expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on American history.

Ben Rhodes offers a peek into Obama's tightly sealed inner sanctum.

… Few moments shook Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth.

Rhodes served as Obama's deputy national security adviser through some of the most consequential points of his presidency…..In handing over power to someone determined to tear down all he had accomplished, Obama alluded to The Godfather mafia movie: "I feel like Michael Corleone. I almost got out."

….Obama and his team were confident that Clinton would win and, like much of the country, were shocked when she did not. 

"I couldn't shake the feeling that I should have seen it coming," Rhodes writes. "Because when you distilled it, stripped out the racism and misogyny, we'd run against Hillary eight years ago with the same message Trump had used: She's part of a corrupt establishment that can't be trusted to bring change."

....Obama focused on cheering up his despondent staff. At one point, he sent a message to Rhodes saying, "There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth."

But days later, Obama seemed less sanguine. "I don't know," he told aides. "Maybe this is what people want. I've got the economy set up well for him. No facts. No consequences. They can just have a cartoon."

He added that "we're about to find out just how resilient our institutions are, at home and around the world."……..NEW YORK TIMES.”

President Obama was wrong, because he never mastered leadership of the male psyche. As an out of his depth Prime Minister cum ersatz President, Obama could win elections; but he could not governed because of his lack of appeal to the Jungian American male psyche, to the American warrior class. 

President Obama did not fail because he was an African-American, or because he was the son of a single mother. He failed because he remained mired in an immature state of Marginal Manhood. 

On December 16, 2010, this Blogger explored why an alt-right racist predicted Obama would fail.

The following is excerpted from that Blog:

“My friend Z volunteered for service  during the Vietnam War; he served as a “tunnel rat”; those warriors who went into the Viet Cong tunnels to kill, with a knife and pistol, nasty work.

He has been my friend through his four marriages, his seven children, his disappearances, his assaults on Vietnamese civilians living in America, his ongoing mural in his basement, chronicling The Black Douglas throwing Robert the Bruce’s heart into a pack of Saracens.

He is a man who survived war by his wits, on a daily basis. Every day in combat, he had to deal, mano a mano, with a wily enemy. He survived by honing his instincts. He just may know SOMETHING.

"Other than  the fact he is half Kenyan, why don't you like Obama?" 

Z replied," Obama never plays with his own money."

"What does that mean?"

Z-"Well to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, there is no there there ...no core. He is the most marginal man ever elected to the Presidency.He has no army buddies, no boyhood African American friends, no white friends from college, no childhood friends from Indonesia.

His friends are a dowry from his wife. He did not like his Kenyan father and his sister is not half black, but half Asian. Some people  see that as a multi cultural kumbaya mosaic, I see it as a recipe for the makings of a Marginal Man. He has no roots whatsoever.  

Being a marginal man, he will never stand his ground, for he has no ground on which to stand. He will instead try to outsmart you, out wit you, out think you, out talk you....".....GERRY MAXEY."

On February 6, 2012, this Blogger published this borrowed analysis:”The President, born in Hawaii and raised for some years in Indonesia, acknowledges, for his part, that he has always been given minority status.  When his daughters acquired a pet from the Washington, D.C. pound, he said this dog was a mongrel, like me."

"MARGINAL MAN-noun Sociology .

a person who participates only slightly in the life of two cultural groups without feeling identified with either group. "

….Obama  is a Marginal Man when it comes to the American Black Experience; how could he not be? He is probably the only Black American President the United States will ever have who does not have a drop of slave blood in him......

There was, at the beginning of his regime, a ludicrous attempt to state that Obama had black American slave blood in him through his white mother……good luck with that.

  

How does a Marginal Man succeed in this Day and Age?

Not by Believing, but by becoming a Method Actor.  President Obama is the Greatest Method Actor of our generation, perhaps in history.

President Obama does not Believe, he absorbs. …GERRY MAXEY.”

President Obama is not only a Marginal Man; he is a man who does not like the American concept of Manhood. President Obama does not like American males, let alone their psyches. He not only likes women more than men, he thinks like a woman.

Why does Barack dislike American Manhood? Because after his mother, the most important person in Obama’s youth was his transgender nanny.

“For about two years starting in 1969, Obama was minded by a "Waria" or transgender woman named Turdi (later changed to Evie). Turdi was originally hired as a cook but "it didn't take long before [he] was also eight-year-old Barry's caretaker, playing with him and bringing him to and from school."

No one is more Marginal Man than a transgender.

President Obama alienated straight American male psyches with his Indonesian advocacy for transgenders; but that was to be expected from a President who knows more about transgenders and gays than American Blacks. Only Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders have prospered  under the Obama Regime; American Blacks have suffered horrifically, becoming human game for Bwanas in police uniforms. Straight American males have made blacks suffer because it was a black who allowed Open Service for Gays in the Military, and advocated Same-Sex Marriage, displaced aggression.....GERRY MAXEY."

He had charm on the level of FDR, JFK and Reagan, and Jeffersonian smarts. What he crucially lacked was American Blood Memory.

He was not an American President but the 21^st Century version of one of Napoleon’s relatives foisted on the native peoples as kings de jure.

On September 23, 2013; this Blogger published the following:

"President Obama lacks masculine spirituality….. many men, and most leaders would like to have accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his voyage around the world, discovered lost cities of gold, joined the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery, dived with Cousteau, or stepped on the moon with Armstrong. Many men have the masculine spirituality of adventure, your President does not. But that alone does not separate him from other men. As you watch him, you see that he loves official comfort, the office, the convention, the meeting, the salon, the classroom, the seminar, the friendly confines of a couch….I sincerely doubt if he has ever dreamed of mastering the Cape, conquering the steppes, crossing the plains, taming the tundra.  He has never dreamed of testing himself against the wild will of Nature, as most men do.

Though many men have the masculine spirituality of adventure, circumstances preclude them from adventure……but why your President is an outlier is that he not only does not want to go on any adventure, he does not envy those who do. Your President does not even envy those men who have the masculine spirituality of adventure. Your President does not envy those men who have done adventurous things.

I submit that half of the men in America and most Republicans, men and women, have a difficult time following the leadership of a man without the masculine spirituality of adventure….. Obama can only discern what other men will do from the advice of the women around him, his mother, wife, Oprah, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and Valerie Jarrett.

Because Obama so identifies with the feminine viewpoint of men, he     sees other men as bullies or aggressors or insensitive slobs, like women do.  Obama is incapable of seeing men as fellow hunters, fellow warriors, or fellow companions; like women, he sees men as inconveniences to civilization.

Obama sees Republicans as a woman would view her loathed, boring ex-husband. Obama sees Republicans as vain males, benighted ex- husbands trying to spoil his current happiness by sheer meanness.

In turn, Republicans see Obama not as the President but as the shrew of an ex-wife who has no understanding of the pride of men.….Obama is afraid of the wilderness in the hearts of men, the anti-Lermontov. ….Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS would terrify Obama. ….GERRY MAXEY.”

On December 15, 2015 memorialized what Obama did wrong in the blog:  President Obama's Three Biggest JUNGIAN Mistakes.................... http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2015/12/president-obamas-three-biggest-jungian.html

The following is excerpted from that blog:

“….. President Obama’s three major Jungian Mistakes, which crippled his Leadership capability, and Leadership projection.

.....President Obama has made three inglorious symbolic mistakes, of Jungian proportions since assuming power.

ACCEPTING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2009-

Nothing damaged President Obama’s Jungian leadership capability and potential more than accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. “The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people…."new climate" in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world."

Obama accepted the prize in Oslo on December 10, 2009.”

Accepting the Peace Prize was a crucial, perhaps fatal mistake by the President to his Presidency; that act evaporated all esteem, and goodwill in his fellow males, especially his male adversaries or opponents.

Why?

Because every male in the world knew, in his Jungian heart, that President Obama DID NOT DESERVE THE PEACE PRIZE. The Prize, every male knew, was an Affirmative Action sop to a florid and odd President.  When he accepted, in an instance, he transformed himself into an Affirmative Action Laureate, inconsequential.

In 2015, even the very Norwegians who bestowed the sop on him are regretful: “The former director of Norway’s Nobel Institute revealed this week that he regrets the committee’s decision to give the 2009 Nobel Peace award to President Obama.

….“[We] thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect,” he (Lundestad) told the Associated Press in an interview….. In the book, he expressed regret that the decision had been based in a hope for the future rather than recognition of past accomplishments, and that their expectations for Mr. Obama were not fulfilled….BBC.”

One can only imagine the global respect Mr. Obama could have instantly achieved if he had turned down the Nobel Peace Prize, because the whole world knew he  did not deserve it…..President left his moral authority on the stage in Oslo when he accepted that undeserved Peace Prize; it wrecked him in the esteem of males everywhere. It was an irretrievable, irredeemable and irrevocable Jungian mistake.

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SNUBS-

American Liberals take umbrage at American conservative white males because, Liberals say, those males believe that President Obama is “foreign.”

By historical irony, between 2011 through 2015, President Obama presided over the 150^th Anniversary of the American Civil War (1861-1865), from the first shot fired at Fort Sumter, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

This was the time to reconcile with conservative white males, by attending some of the commemorations, to show that he understood the Jungian Blood Memory significance of the Civil War through his white American mother.

Instead the President made a Jungian mistake; he SNUBBED all the events, thereby symbolically informing conservative white males he was indeed  a foreigner, if not legally then in spirit.

He even snubbed the 150^th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest clash of arms on American soil, to go to Africa, his father's home continent. That is total Jungian symbolism.

On July 1, 2013, this Blogger published: President Obama Goes To Africa Snubs the 150th Anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3

http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2013/07/president-obama-goes-to-africa-snubs.html.

The following is excerpted from that Blog:

"This is the 150^th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest, most Homeric, most important, bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil…..It is a seminal event in American history. …..

……The United States, in 2013, is a nation divided by class,  Globalization, Women’s Aspirations, Abortion, Gay Rights, Voting Rights, Immigration; the sacred and hallowed ground of Gettysburg, on this 150^th Anniversary, would be the perfect, nay pluperfect, place to begin a national reconciliation by noting the common bondage of blood sacrifice we have as Americans. Nothing current and nothing going forward can be worst than what the men of both sides endured on the Battlefield of Gettysburg.

This is the time, the 150^th Anniversary, and the Gettysburg Battlefield is the hallowed place for our American President to say that, as Americans, we must never hold enmity in our hearts for other Americans, and never contemplate another Civil War.

Alas, our President is not here in the United States taking advantage of this natural period of reconciliation. …...He is in Africa, in this time frame, because he has nothing to give to American reconciliation. He is a petty triumphalist, who has deserted his nation when it needs a commemorative reconciliation…..THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”

President Obama, after being begged, also rejected attending the 150^th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, the greatest speech in American History.

How can anyone NOT consider President Obama a foreigner when he does not celebrate a single event of the greatest Homeric saga in American History?

LACK OF JUNGIAN MASCULINE MAGNANIMITY-

When Lincoln met Grant and Sherman to map out the final strategy to snuff out the Confederacy, Sherman asked him:”How should I treat the Rebs when they are beaten.”

Lincoln replied in terms all men recognize:”Let them up easy.”

The implication was obvious to Sherman; the Rebs were beaten but still Americans.

One of the great masculine attributes is Jungian Masculine Magnanimity; ….

In 2009, President Obama won a great victory over Republicans by extraordinary legislative means, OBAMACARE.

At the signing of the bill into law, President Obama surrounded himself with every functionary of the Democratic Party alive. No Republican thought it was prudent or appropriate to attend.

President Obama should have known that he would need Republicans again, for the obvious reason, Republicans are Americans and Americans need other Americans.

In that moment of stunning triumph, President Obama should have let the Republicans up easy.

But he was incapable of that; his Jungian soul was and is the QUEEN OF HEARTS, feminine triumphalism.

For a century, American presidents have fought to bring Healthcare to Americans; two of the greatest knights in that quest were Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.

President Obama did not mention either when he cataloged the Presidents who have fought for Healthcare; he only mentioned Democratic presidents…….

The deliberate omission of Richard Nixon at the ceremony was especially egregious to all those who appreciate the History of America. In 1974, President Nixon offered a healthcare plan, arguably better than OBAMACARE. Republicans lined up behind it; it would have passed but Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy torpedoed it, for vanity.

Healthcare reform for Nixon was personal; he had grown up poor in California, losing two brothers, Harold and Arthur, to tuberculosis because his family could not afford proper healthcare.

Any man of masculine magnanimity, would have made the gesture and mentioned Richard Nixon at the healthcare signing,letting Nixon's ghost up easy…...

In the end, Obama’s Three Jungian mistakes have highlighted that it is ALL ABOUT OBAMA for America’s feminized President; which has caused an unyielding Jungian backlash of ferocity from males especially conservative males. ……..THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”

This Blogger sincerely hopes his observations help Ben Rhodes understand the devalued potential of Barack Obama.

President Obama and his Boswell, Ben Rhodes