Posted on 09/30/2009 3:36:58 AM PDT by Scanian
Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own -- when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents.
Barack Obama won praise for Dreams From My Father, a 1995 memoir of his life that was published when he reached the grand old age of thirty-four. The provenance of the book has come into question, led by a series of American Thinker columns by Jack Cashill, who used textual analysis to ascribe its writing --or at least a good portion of it -- to Bill Ayers, Obama's neighbor, former Weatherman, Obama campaign supporter and partner in various activist groups in Chicago. This claim has been echoed in a new book by best-selling author Christian Andersen, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage who wrote that sources close to the Obamas told him that Barack Obama turned over his notes and tapes to Bill Ayers to compose the book.
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Give the guy a break, this is his first job.
I was thinking about this the other day. He is never in the Oval Office; he is out still campaigning.
Ya gotta admit, he *is* deciding to review the active war in Afghanistan now... for the first time ever, probably... since being shamed into it... but only after he gets home from carrying Chicago’s water which only requires him to make a speech or something....
Ya gotta admire his consistency at least.
Well, maybe not.
Many Obama watchers have concluded that he is just a front man and a salesman for the administration’s agenda. According to that school of thought, Soros, Axelrod, Emanuel, Gaspard, and other left-wing bigwigs are calling the shots.
Obama’s father merely dreamed of his next drink and his next piece of tail.Obama dreams of his ruling the world.
Let’s hope his fantasy or wet dream gets spoiled. Obama has a tough time on his constent flip flops.
Yeah, you’re right. He’s making a decision to decide to review it.
Only healthcare & cap&tax cramdowns are done in haste by this administration.
I understand the old man was a renowned demolition derby driver as well.
March 11, 2009
"You would think this is the time he'd really knuckle down and get to work "
Carol Platt Liebau was first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review:
'It reminds me a little bit of my experience with him when he was president of the Harvard Law Review. You know, I hesitated to say a lot about this during the campaign because I really thought maybe it wasn't fair. That maybe, finally, when he got to be President, this would be a job big enough to engage and hold Barack Obama's sustained interest, because really, is there a bigger job out here?
[...] [W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
A lot of the time he quote/unquote "worked from home", which was sort of a shorthand - and people would say it sort of wryly - shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn't around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He's the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
So, you know, you see that and you think, gosh, maybe that's the way the guy operates, hut then you figure ok, obviously he always had his eye on bigger and better things.
But now he's President...there really isn't a bigger or better thing."
Once a poseur, always a poseur.
That also could be applied to Bill Clinton when he was in the white house. The press only lets a Dem POTUS get away with this crap.
The only good part is that while they diddle, less of their agenda gets accomplished.
That was evident in Clinton’s second term, especially. Unfortunately, the Obamanoids have created a czar system to make up for the fact that their front man is a yam.
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