Posted on 03/07/2009 8:52:01 PM PST by Kaslin
All we're getting is whispers from the press, of course, A raised eyebrow here, a sad shake of the head there. But the picture that is emerging of Barack Obama, the executive, is not very flattering if you look between the lines.
Jennifer Rubin:
Well, it's becoming obvious he's not really much of a manager, decider, legislation-craftsman, or supervisor. His vetting process is in shambles and key Treasury slots are still vacant. His Treasury Secretary is a classic under-performer and Obama encourages that tendency by talking about everything other than our immediate recovery needs. He lets Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do the legislating - and they've come up with an embarrassing stimulus and an omnibus spending-bill even Democrats aren't swallowing.
What does he like to do? Summits. These are in essence campaign events - faux town-halls where nary a discouraging word is heard and no real work is done. And he loves those campaign rallies around the country.
So if the report is accurate that others are crafting his political strategy (just like the Pelosi-Reid machine is drafting his legislation), it should should come as no surprise. George W. Bush was lambasted for poor management skills and excessive delegation. But that was nothing - Obama has delegated the entire task of governing. He will keep the campaigning for himself.
Miner's firm specialized in civil rights litigation and in representing not-for-profits. "The 'game of law' irritated [Obama] more than fascinated him," Miner says. "There are people who just like the game. Barack didn't like the game."
Allison Davis, a former partner in Miner's firm (and the son of a prominent U. of C. professor), occupied an office next to Obama's at 14 West Erie Street. "He spent a lot of time working on his book [Dreams from My Father]," Davis recalls. "Some of my partners weren't happy with that, Barack sitting there with his keyboard on his lap and his feet up on the desk writing the book."
After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the "President's Room," just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.
As the half-dozen senators -- including John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward M. KennedySen.. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who made a request common when Capitol Hill news conferences are in the offing: "Hey, guys, can I come along?" And when Obama went before the microphones, he was generous with his list of senators to congratulate -- a list that included himself.
"I want to cite Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback, Mel Martinez, Ken Salazar, myself, Dick Durbin, Joe Lieberman . . . who've actually had to wake up early to try to hammer this stuff out," he said.
To Senate staff members, who had been arriving for 7 a.m. negotiating sessions for weeks, it was a galling moment. Those morning sessions had attracted just three to four senators a side, Sen.. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) recalled, each deeply involved in the issue. Obama was not one of them. But in a presidential contest involving three sitting senators, embellishment of legislative records may be an inevitability, Specter said with a shrug.
Unlike governors, business leaders or vice presidents, senators -- the last to win the presidency was John F. Kennedy in 1960 -- are not executives. They cannot be held to account for the state of their states, their companies or their administrations. What they do have is the mark they leave on the nation's laws -- and in Obama's brief three-year tenure, as well as Sen.. Hillary Rodham Clinton's seven-year hitch, those marks are far from indelible.
(D-Mass.) -- headed to announce their plan, they met
Barack Obama today boasted about a bill in "my committee,'' a committee on which he has no seat.
While speaking to the press in the Israeli town of Sderot, Obama mistakenly put the U.S. Senate banking committee on his resume, although the Illinois senator does not serve on the committee and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is the chairman.
The Republican National Committee distributed an e-mail pointing out Obama's mistake with a subject line of "Obama's Gaffe Machine Rolls Into Israel."
During the press conference, Obama said, "Just this past -- this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."
In the State Senate, Jones did something even more important for Obama. He pushed him forward as the key sponsor of some of the Party's most important legislation, even though the move did not sit well with some colleagues who had plugged away in the minority on bills that Obama now championed as part of the majority. "Because he had been in the minority, Barack didn't have a legislative record to run on, and there was a buildup of all these great ideas that the Republicans kept in the rules committee when they were in the majority," Burns said. "Jones basically gave Obama the space to do what Obama wanted to do. Emil made it clear to people that it would be good for them."
"You have the power to make a United States senator," he told Emil Jones in 2003.
[He’s in over his head. The question is how many of the rest of us will he drown with him.]
If you’ve booked a cruise on the Titanic, when it goes down you need to make sure you get on a lifeboat AND that you row like hell to miss the whirlpool. That lifeboat will have Democrats as well as Conservatives trying to get in. At some point you will need to grab an oar and take out the ones who deserve to sink, or get sucked under yourself.
The moron never did anything other than agitate, so we are now supposed to believe him when he says to buy stocks? How in the hell does he know?
Hmmmm. I wonder if Bill Ayers also flew off to the South Pacific at the same time?
In 1972, we thought we had four more years of Nixon. Things have a way of changing.
I wonder how much he has invested in the stock market, or if he ever had anything invested in the market?
Duh, does a pig have ears?
Obviously, these people are just waking up. They are the lazy ones, who didn't do enough examining (and ignored the signs of incompetency and laziness) of The Pretender before he was even nominated. It was just simpler and less taxing to go with the hoopla than to swim against the stream and recognize what was before them. An egotistical, spotlight grabber who had no skills, no experience, and no stamina for any job...proven by his past performances...let alone the task of running this nation.
In less than two months Obama's staffers have even admitted that he is "exhausted," and found it too difficult to even schedule a Press Conference with the PM of England, because he was overwhelmed by our economic crisis. Rather than writing speeches for his teleprompter they will be busy writing excuses for him for however long he is able to hang in there (which probably won't be for long).
It’s too bad we posters can’t embed YouTube videos on the site.
The Obamassiah is a joke. Compared to other leaders, such as Netanyahu or Putin, he’s a pansy, as well.
One of the threads today was that Obama was fatigued when Brown came to Washington. Oh poor baby. He was tired!
Who paid for that trip? And Colombia, etc., etc., etc.
Good point. Obama should tell us what he owns, when he bought it, and tell us the P/E of the stock.
I wish we could sue the media for what they had a large hand in doing to this country-they are traitors I say lock them all up with the exception of one or two on second thought they all go
Didn’t PravdABDNC tell us he worked out hard for 2 hrs per day and was a triathlete? Guess not. When they were swooning over his body, I said it looked like a teenager w/no muscles.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
The Press controls the country. That is why we have the One occupying the most powerful position in the world. And he is a wimp, but so are the Journalists in the country, They are cowards.
I hear you, but let's be realistic. We couldn't get Clinton, so no matter how bad this guy gets, incompetence isn't an impeachable offense. And even if his sleazy Chicago ties bubble to the surface, you can bet his buttboys in the media will circle the wagons for him.
No, unfortunately, I think we're stuck with this bozo...
I agree. Commie traitors, all of them.
McCarthy was right. That’s why they had to destroy him.
The problem with having someone this weak as president is god only knows who will take over when push comes to shove.
Thanks for sharing that.
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