How Obama Makes Decisions

The American Thinker ^ | 02/21/12 | Ed Lasky

[pgkdan]

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Barack Obama was unprepared to be president. He had very little record to run on, and his one experience at being an executive was a failure -- his hushed up history running and running through a hundred million dollars as the head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in Chicago. He had a record of avoiding tough decisions (the "voting present" issue); he was just a celebrity who was not ready for the 3 A.M. phone call. The presidency was not an "on the job" training program.

Americans should have been alert to the paucity of his own record of accomplishment. As a state senator he showed little interest in learning the intricacies of legislation. Instead, his political mentor, Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones, allowed him to "bill-jack" the legislative work of others and claim it as his own. This was a practice he continued as a U.S. senator. He was unprepared to do the homework and heavy lifting -- that was for others to toil over.

If there is one constant to Barack Obama's life, it is his lack of a work ethic. I never doubted that the Barack Obama had stellar grades in college and law school. He surfed the wave of grade inflation that has probably always been a factor in his success. This is pure speculation, but the reason why he never released his transcripts was probably because they would have revealed that he took easy left-wing courses that would have reflected poorly on his work ethic. The laziness has persisted.

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Obama has made a habit of coming across like a man who doesn't know what he's talking about. That's bothersome enough, but what's more worrisome still is how comfortable he is with not knowing what he's talking about...

[Tenacious 1]

This article should be read by every American.

[spokeshave]

it is therefore my strongest recommendation this candidate not be considered for any position within the corporation.

On the seventh day you find your daughter's lost kindergarten lunch box....containing a paper slip of an account number in Switzerland.

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[SumProVita]

From the article: I never doubted that the Barack Obama had stellar grades in college and law school.

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HOW does he know that his grades were *stellar?*

I very much doubt that his grades were good, as he knows almost NADA about American History, economics, philosophy, mathematics....etc...etc..

He HAS learned how to manipulate and to “play the part.”

[KodakKing]

[Monkey Face]

*GASP!*

You just insulted “What Me Worry?”

:thud:

[andyk]

I always thought he used a Magic Eight Ball.

He just traded one eight ball in for another.

[Baynative]

"Imagine for a few moments that you are the human resources director of a major multi-billion dollar corporation. You are sitting in your large, luxurious office when you receive a phone call from the Chairman of the Board of Directors."
He tells you that the board is considering a candidate for a high-level executive position.

Ironically, I had a conversation yesterday where the premise of the discussion was worded almost exactly that way.

The difference was that the question was posed to us in terms of capability rather than eligibility. What we found intriguing about the whole Omama experience was subsequent to his recent fund raisers with big dollar donors who are heads of business. We compared his grandiose speech on the Greek Column stage in Denver where he never explained a plan or process but just talked about dreams and ambitions and wondered if any of the CEOs giving him money would have hired him to work in their company as an executive with no idea how to really do anything and no experience at actually doing something.

We don't set our annual projections or project goals by holding hands and chanting that we want the effort to be a success. We lay out a plan with a time line, a hierarchy of responsibility, a method of execution, and a budget.

While a community organizer may be a motivational speaker of sorts, they don't appear to have much in the way of executive skills. - Certainly, this one doesn't.

[newheart]

Nah. Alfie is impervious to insults.

[hattend]

BTTT

[peeps36]

Berry is a legend in his own warped little mind, just ask him. Liberal white douchebags inflated his ego by blowing smoke up his ass and pretending he was great. That's a big reason he has become the know nothing arrogant prick he is today.

[The Great RJ]

Not only does Obama lack a work ethic he lacks both the leadership and intellectual depth to be POTUS. George Bush was always portrayed as an idiot, but Obama has far less "gravitas" than any President since Millard Filmore.

Another mark of a great President is who are his closest advisers and picks for Cabinet positions. In Obama's case his closest advisers are low life political hacks from Chicago and his cabinet picks have either been very inadequate or total failures e.g. Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder.

[noinfringers2]

Obama reminds me of a high school classmate who generally sat in back of or in front of me because our last names were very close alphabetically. I’ll call him Bill. Bill was a good talker who was very prominent in school affairs especially dramatics. One class day sticks in my memory. We were in an English class and instructed to write a critique or essay, one page as I recall, about a certain piece of literature. The teacher collected all the papers but found there was no paper from Bill. When asked why he had not submitted a paper Bill matter of factly just said he wasn’t good at putting words into writing but he could do so by talking. As I recall the teacher let Bill talk his essay but had to cut him off after it went on and on. To this day I’m skeptical of talkers who can’t write the talk.