Posted on 04/24/2009 10:43:10 AM PDT by Zakeet
It didn't take long for Barack Obama — for all his youth and inexperience — to get acclimated to his new role as the calming leader of a country in crisis.
"I feel surprisingly comfortable in the job," the nation's 44th president said a mere two weeks after taking the helm.
"The challenges are big," a sober Obama added, underscoring the foreign and domestic problems he inherited Jan. 20. "But one thing I'm absolutely convinced about is you want to be president when you've got big problems. If things are going too smoothly, then this is just another nice home office."
Over nearly 100 days as president, Obama has applied the same "no drama" leadership and calculated approach to governing that he did to campaigning.
As an audacious candidate, Obama meticulously built a powerhouse organization and fundraising juggernaut to engineer his victory. As a fledgling president, he similarly has mapped out a big-risk agenda that he's methodically begun to execute, keeping to the discipline that has been a hallmark of his life.
Rookie jitters? Far from it.
Confident almost to a fault, he could seem aloof, even arrogant at times in the campaign. He's kept that focused attitude in the White House, while exhibiting few flashes of any off-putting, self-important tone.
Perhaps that's because he's reached the pinnacle of his political ambition. Perhaps it's because anxious times of war and economic crisis demand a calm demeanor. Perhaps it's the sheer weight of the office and the urgent tasks.
Whatever the reason, Obama has seemed extraordinarily at ease as president from the day he took office — after a campaign in which he made a once skeptical electorate comfortable with the notion that a black, 47-year-old, first-term senator with limited experience could take over as the leader of the free world.
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So he makes 'em up for his own amusement?
Very good post. It makes me cry.
I tried to tell people we should NEVER NEVER NEVER elect a needy person to the presidency. Desperately needy people (like the abandoned and neglected child Barack once was) tend not to believe in anything but suckling on power and attention. Laws are meaningless to them. Obama does not care who runs the country or what happens to anyone, as long as his face is plastered lovingly across every screen and magazine. And the socialist powers-that-be knew this and knew the public would fall for him as the Magic First Black President. He’s a useful tool, but NOT to We the People.
Thank you Yaelle. Its sad to me on another level, not mentioned here. I would have liked to have seen a wholesome Black man like J.C. Watts become the first Black President.
What we have now, is a man in there that will by the end of his term in office, have scared most U.S. Citizens to death. Is that the legacy we want the first Black U.S. President to leave behind?
He’s an insult to good honorable Black Citizens throughout the United States. Sadly, they probably voted for him too. I’m sure they did so in good conscience. Many people just don’t follow along close enough to know what Obama was prior to the election. That will cost them along with us.
Here’s a slightly different version of the article, in PDF format in case you would like to share it.
http://www.hotr.us/articles/obama/obamaalignmentthe.pdf
This proves that any fool can do it if the electorate is made up of a lot more fools
Thank you for another page of American Propaganda, the new voice of America.
#57, EXCELLENT post!
Thank you very much. Please see post #64 if you would like a PDF version.
Very good post DO. You are so right.
Thank you. Post #64 has a link to a PDF version if you would like it.
Take care...
BBTTT.
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