When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone
It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.
I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.