When you jumped in with the sharks with your original candidacy announcement way back when, everybody expected you to use that oratorical talent you have and the brains you have to stay at the top of the food chain.
No one expected you to go all bipartisan on them and end up joining the sharks in their feeding frenzies on all the smaller fish in the ocean.
It was expected that you would instead use your talent to pet those sharks and calm them and make them do what you want, instead of being so afraid they'd eat you alive that you thought the only way to avoid that was to join them.
Instead of joining them to eat everyone else, you included, because you know you're only one man and if you keep trying that eventually you'll be the only prey left in the sea - what you should be doing is you caress them and seduce them and get them eating out of your hand.
There is an art to this, Mr. Obama. Here's how it's done....