Posted on 08/26/2010 11:17:08 AM PDT by Justaham
Conflicting messages on the ground zero mosque are just the latest signal that a clear presidential strategy is missingand voters are gearing up to retaliate against the presidents incompetence, says Douglas E. Schoen.
Not only has President Obama systematically put forward unpopular policies and programs that are not producing real, long-lasting results that reflect the wishes of the American people, he has not generated a sense of competence in the electorate.
Indeed, Obamas judgment and instincts have been called into question by a series of bad decisions since he has become president. Put simply, rather than emphasizing results and outcomes, he has opted for rhetorical parsing and political gamesmanship every time. Voters have grown disillusioned with the administrations reactive and seemingly hypocritical governing style, in which the notion of unity of command and a cohesive strategy have proved alien.
The problem, wrote Politicos John Harris and Jim VandeHei this summer, is that he and his West Wing turn out to be not especially good at politics or communicationsin other words, largely ineffective at the very things on which their campaign reputation was built.
Whenever the American people are looking for leadership from the president, Obama and his administration have systematically put forth conflicting and ambiguous messages. As Maureen Dowd recently noted in a recent column for The New York Times: Hes with the banks, hes against the banks. Hes leaving Afghanistan, hes staying in Afghanistan. He strains at being a populist, but his head is in the clouds.
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Politico is wrong, as usual. Politics and communications are the only thing the leftists are good at. Certainly they're congenitally incapable of governing.
0bama knows nothing about everything.
What freedom-loving, truth-telling, American-principle-honoring, non-collectivist, non-muslim-individual or MAN would EVER say that?
No wonder the Kenyan stays on vacation. When he returns to the office, he’s going to get fired.
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