He does sound like one of, say, Clarin's yellow press gossip columnists, all Duh!!, like this:
"No matter what happens in the midterm elections, whoever is president is entitled to cling to office until his or her preordained stint finally comes to an end".
because that's how it's been except Jimmy didn't realize that until now, even after how many years? Or otherwise it's assumptions about what any political figure might feel, just translated into English, where he sounds just as bad as you might expect. I thought for a while that he sounded like one of the International Herald Tribunes extreme right wing fulminators, like Safire, but I realized I was giving way too much credit to Jimmy.