Inside Obama's Presidency

The character type of Barack Obama is active positive. The active positive president is one who has high self esteem, likes their job being the president, and has personal goals in order to be successful. One example from the documentary, "Inside Obama's Presidency" that shows he is an active positive president is Obama took the opportunity and chance to kill Osama Bin Laden, when he had inside information about his location. This was a risky job for Obama to decide to try to accomplish because if the mission was failed, Bin Laden could potentially attack the United States and the soldiers sent on the mission would end up being killed. Even though his idea was not fully supported by the rest of government, he had high hopes in the idea and believed it would be successful so he went for it anyway. His since of high self esteem and personal goals make him a active positive president. Also, Obama is very active in government trying to get as much legislation as possible passed. When Obama first came up with the idea of ObamaCare, Congress was immediately against it. However, Obama constantly visited around the country to give speeches as to why the reform needs to be passed and did not stop, or give up on the idea of the bill, until it ended up being passed. His dedication and drive to get even this one bill passed which he strongly believed in, is what makes him a active positive president. Another good example of how Obama has high self esteem is he is constantly making jokes even about himself. He knows that the whole country makes the joke that is anything goes wrong they say, "Thanks Obama". Because of this, even President Obama made a video of himself where when he couldn't accomplish what he was trying to do he said, "Thanks Obama". This funny example shows he is not really afraid of what others think of him, and he will even joke around with him. He has high self esteem which makes him a active positive president.

 

 

Obama's character type is good for the current political climate because since the legislative and executive branches are separate as far as their parties and the Republicans are so strict, if Obama did not push for legislation he liked to get passed, nothing would and there would be gridlock in the government. Also, his high self esteem is very important because he has so many critics because of his ideas such as the Health Care Reform Act, so since he is so positive all the time in government as well as what he believes he does, that is important for him, in order to keep the country running. In 2016 voters are going to be looking for a president who is similar to Obama, but tries to be a little less involved so more compromises can be made. The best type of president for the country would be a passive positive president because this type of president will still be optimistic and trying to get things done in the government, but at the same time they will be wanting the support from Congress and to be accepted, so they will make more compromises in order to get legislation passed, which will be viewed as positive by the public as well as by the rest of the public.