Obama "Comique-en-chef"

Le Président n'a plus la cote de popularité de ses débuts à la Présidence, mais ses chiffres s'améliorent continuellement en 2015. Il est même plus populaire que tous les autres démocrates et il prend un malin plaisir à utiliser son sens de la répartie et son sens de l'humour pour s'en prendre sans ménagement à ses adversaires républicains. L'opinion publique est très polarisée aux États-Unis et Obama est une des seules figures à rallier plus de partisans que d'adversaires.

 "Obama’s in his element, and freer these days to let loose the biting jokes that almost anyone who’s spent time with him in private has come to know well, but that until lately was much rarer in public or pre-boiled down into dad joke groaners. Obama piling on the insults with Zach Galifianakis in his “Between Two Ferns” Obamacare video last year didn’t take a lot of acting, according to people who know him and were involved in the video. Even John Boehner, just hours after his resignation was officially read out on the House floor on Monday, got a jab while the president was trying to compliment him for getting a budget deal done.

 It’s like that old Chris Rock bit, Obama said, when men brag about saying, “‘I take care of my kids.’ I mean, you're supposed to take care of your kids. ‘I haven't been to jail.’ You're not supposed to go to jail.” Obama has been frustrated by the lack of credit he gets for how much the economy has improved since he came in, and some White House advisers feel that as the election to choose a successor really gets underway, he’s uniquely positioned to remind Americans about where things were and where they are now."

  http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/obamas-2016-role-jokester-in-chief-215580