Posted on 10/24/2009 10:01:52 AM PDT by Steelfish
Barack Obama Must Stop Campaigning And Start Governing
President Barack Obama still steems to be running for office, rather than running the country, says Toby Harnden
Toby Harnden 24 Oct 2009
Barack Obama retains the style of a campaigner, even in office.
Perhaps we should not be surprised that the land of the permanent campaign has produced a president like Barack Obama. During his White House bid, Mr Obama's staff argued that his masterful oversight of the machinery that ultimately got him elected was his highest achievement.
In many respects this was true, though Mr Obama was more chairman than CEO. Even Republican political operatives acknowledge that the Obama '08 campaign was a thing of beauty.
Essentially, however, Mr Obama won because of his persona – post-racial, healing, cool, articulate and inspirational. In a sense, therefore, his greatest achievement in life is being Barack Obama. Or the campaign version, at least.
Therein lies the problem. While campaigning could centre around soaring rhetoric, governing is altogether messier. It involves tough, unpopular choices and cutting deals with opponents. It requires doing things rather than talking about them, let alone just being. Mr Obama is showing little appetite for this. Instead of being the commander-in-chief, he is the campaigner-in-chief.
After a disastrous summer that saw his approval rating drop more than any other president at the same stage since Harry Truman in 1953, Mr Obama has temporarily abandoned the campaign-style events promoting his stalled health-care reform initiative.
Now, he is stumping for Democratic candidates in states he won last year but which are now in danger. Last Wednesday in Hackensack, Mr Obama took to the stage to proclaim: "Your voice can change the world. Your voice can elect Jon Corzine, governor once again of New Jersey." Change the world?
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“Barack Obama Must Stop Campaigning And Start Governing”
All kidding aside I am in extreme favor of most anything that keeps him from “governing”.
Intimidation is his entire approach to governance — and he needs the constant image of an irrational mob behind him.
Øbozo has NO EXPERIENCE in how to govern, so how can he start now!?!
Someone does NOT get it....Obama isn’t the “governing” body......his puppetmasters are. He’s just the “friendly face out front.
When it was Pres. Bush all they did was b*tch about the way he governed. Well, you’ve got Obama now. The constant campaigner. Happy?
For our country to survive, Obama must fail.....
Change nothing, let him continue to fail.
Obama Akbar.
His greatest achievement in life is being Barack Obama.Yawn.
He’s just some street thug organizer from chi-town, that became a mediocre senator, and was a nobody sate senator previously, and some hack college professor before that.
Who on Earth can even think he is even capable of governing?
Oh he's running it alright - running it into the ground.
He does not know how to govern. He got to be President by affirmative action and aided by the state run media.
"Just being"
Reminds me of Jerzy Kosinzki's book and the movie (Peter Sellers), "Being There".
From an overview of the book:
"It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner -- Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities, " Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible."
Sounds strangely familiar.
I am waiting and hoping for 0bama to do something that will negatively impact some dumbass who voted for him.
We are going to get real change in this country only when the people who vote for marxist politicans start to be hurt by them.
Super comparison. Well said!
Read my Tagline.
Agreed. Look at the damage he has caused just by campaigning!
24 fund raisers as president
All this says much about Mr Obama's priorities at a time when he is sitting on an urgent request for 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, seemingly unsure about whether the counter-insurgency strategy he announced in March is the right one.
As earlier experts wrote about, his narcissism will become DANGEROUS to this country.
LOL, very very true!
Amen to that tagline.
I think you’ve got it.
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