Obama was no political master, after all

President Obama, it turns out, is good at basically one thing: getting elected.

Nearly all of the other skills of politicians and statesmen, such as persuading the public, crafting compromise, helping his political allies, are absent in Obama. Tuesday’s results — destruction of his party’s Senate majority, and losses in the House — reinforce that Obama’s political prowess is limited to his ability to make people pull the lever for him or cut him a check.