Posted on 10/19/2009 10:15:40 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
ABC News's Web site includes the article "Is Obama 'Too Nice' to Make Tough Decisions?" by correspondent David Kerley. The piece begins: With problems for the president in Afghanistan, health care and unemployment, some critics on both the left and right are asking: Is the president essentially "too nice" to make the important decisions? The National Journal magazine asks in a just-out edition, "Is He Tough Enough?"
"Be decisive," says Tom Tradewell, the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Even liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says the president will have to "break some eggs" to cook up a more perfect union.
None of the people quoted assert the problem is Obama's affability. Rather, the difficulty is the extreme caution he exercises, many times so as to not offend interest groups.
We know Obama has little reluctance in employing the us-versus-them class struggle rhetoric against private enterprise. He's accused surgeons of removing legs and tonsils for the money. (The American College of Surgeons pointed out his statement that a surgeon receives $50,000 for a leg amputation was a little off; Medicare pays between $740 and $1,140). Obama has no qualms sending his flunkies forth to attack Fox News. On Saturday, he personally claimed that health insurers are “filling the airwaves with deceptive and dishonest ads.”
Too nice? Not hardly. Indecisive? Definitely. Dithering? You bet. Waffling? Absolutely. Unqualified? The answer increasingly becomes apparent. While Obama repeatedly says he wants to make things clear, rarely does he provide specifics.
As he stumbles and vacillates and falters, we've seen the mainstream media supply an arsenal of excuses for Obama's failings. He inherited it all from Bush. He set too ambitious an agenda. Large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress aren't enough. He's so terribly brilliant and nuanced that it takes the American public quite a while to catch up with him.
And now an excuse is he's just too nice. That's as empty as Obama's promises, and will last about as long.
I’ll go with “too stupid!”
No. He cannot make a decision. The man is in WAY over his head.
Oh! Okay. That makes it all better.
WEAKLING
“Too nice”? LOL.. how about too cowardly, too stupid, and zero leadership.
I think 0bama is too wonderful to be just President. /s
Too nice? The guy played politics in Chicago, do they really think he can’t put the knife in nice and slow with a smile and then give it a twist???
Idiots all.
Please, Barry-O, don’t start taking advice from the likes of Maureen Dowd.
Roger that.
Yeah it’s real “nice” to leave our troops to get killed for months while he plays.
This guy is rotten to the core.
“Maureen Dowd says the president will have to “break some eggs” to cook up a more perfect union.”
Modo cleverly paraphases the excuse used by Stalin to purge the Commie party to urge on ObaMugabe.
Time
RUSSIA: Stalin’s Omelette
Monday, Oct. 24, 1932
“Publicly to against expound himself and last week denounce the “plot”against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: “. . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette ! . . .”
It's just shocking!!
Mulling over in my mind how anyone can consider a Chicago thug Marxist who hates white people, “too nice.”
Great, just what we needed, another Carter.
Too nice????? WTF!!!???
How about “Too Treasonous”?
How about “Too Anti-American”?
How about “Too Pro-Islamic”?
These ABC bastards are looking for a dictator.
Too nice? No, he’s so inexperienced it’s pathetic. Along with that, whoever he is listening to doesn’t care about this country. He will go down as the worst President this country has ever had and he is doing a great dis-service to the blacks of this country. I believe it will be a long time before this country accepts another black as President. It’s sad, he could have done some great things to bring this country together. As it stands, he is dividing this country beyond belief.
Geez, ain’t afirmative action great? Can’t wait until we elect our first transgendered buddha.
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