Captain Zero scores a record of sorts. A ton of campaign fundraisers and absolutely no candidate campaign appearances.

By Rob Janicki

Just as the Bush brand name has worn itself out with 12 years of father and son presidencies, I'm thinking the Obama brand reached it's high point in the 2012 election cycle.  Since then it's been in an out-of-control tailspin as Obama has managed to guide the world, and particularly the Middle East, into chaos.  Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the "smartest president ever."

With my perverse sense of political humor, I have found it absolutely entertaining that Obama has turned out to be a political pariah for all the Democrats running for election in the midterm congressional elections on November 4th.  As much as I think that Obama is incompetent to be the leader of the free world, that does not imply that he has no political savvy.  Even Obama could read the handwriting on the wall.  He is a political liability to his party as their former touchstone for political success.  

Obama, to his credit, quickly adapted to the reality before him.  Obama has done the next best thing.  He has gone out to raise funds for the Democrat Party.  Now, Obama hasn't done this out of the goodness of his heart.  Obama plans to be an active force, if not the major force, in the Democrat Party for years to come.  In particular, Obama wants to be the king maker for the next Democratic candidate for the presidency, and it isn't Hillary, but that's a discussion for another time.  Back to the present.

Just three weeks to go until the midterm elections and with control of the Senate hanging in the balance, candidates are scrambling toward the finish line.

One key figure, however, has been largely absent: President Obama.

President Obama has appeared at zero public campaign events this cycle, opting instead to tap into his fundraising prowess to boost Democratic candidates behind closed-doors.

The public magic of the gifted campaigner seems to have worn off and has been replaced by the magic of the glad handler of the Democrat Party as Fundraiser in Chief.  Now to be completely forthright, I have to hand it to Obama for his gift of talking people out of their good sense and their tons of money, much like Bernie Madoff of Wall Street fraud fame.  The difference is that Madoff didn't destroy the economy with his billion-dollar fraud and didn't reduce America's standing in the world to just above mediocre.  That dishonor has been left to Barack Obama.