His Swagger Radiates no Sweetness.

Observers have seen it dozens of times:  Our slim President’s athletic, waist-level fist-pumping jog down the steps of Air Force One – alone, confidently smiling, immaculately dressed in a dark business suit,  complementing shirt and silk necktie – jauntily disembarking from the boarding ramp.

It’s the vision of a U.S. chief executive completely in control of the ship-of-state, a position from which he has not been reluctant to use the full power conferred on him by the electorate. 

After the 2012 national election, the President invoked his assertion that the entirety of Americans had indisputably endorsed him to fix culpability on anyone in the Congress who doesn’t concur with his re-election ‘mandate:'