Posted on 03/16/2011 1:35:03 PM PDT by Justaham
A dizzying succession of major world events is bombarding a president who insists on controlling his own time, emotions and political message.
With Japan’s nuclear crisis teetering on the verge of catastrophe, with Libya and Bahrain in violent turmoil, and with financial markets crashing in response, President Barack Obama has been adamantly sticking to his own political and policy playbook.
That has meant muscling past the red-siren headlines to hammer away at the jobs-and-education message that will be the centerpiece of his 2012 campaign, the kind of discipline that is a hallmark of his new senior adviser, David Plouffe.
And it also meant refusing to scrap a five-day trip to Latin America on Friday that will take him to sun-dappled Rio de Janeiro, among other places, rather than staying home to focus on the increasingly disastrous international news confronting his crisis-weary White House.
“The president is taking this trip because he is committed to growing the economy [and] rebalancing our national security posture,” White House press secretary Jay Carney shot back on Tuesday when an incredulous reporter asked if he would consider delaying the five-day swing through Brazil, Chile and El Salvador.
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Oh so now dithering and the inability to make decisions is called
‘controlling his own time, emotions and political message.’
Love it, this journalist calls Obama’s complete disconnect regarding the world on fire events, “discipline”
Don’t they mean “Hussein the Drama Queen”?
Get a room!
If this is not the Chauncey Gardener presidency I don’t know what is
I hope all the stress from all the international crises doesn’t adversely affect Hussein’s golf game or NCAA Tournament picks.
The press is having a very hard time covering for Obozo's dislike of governing.
It might be best if he stayed in Rio.
Today's message:
Looks like HIStorians have decided on a presidential nickname for Hussein and his failed presidency, Goebbels-style.
He picked Pitt. Oh no! Pitt is my school - bound to lose now.
The Ostrich Presidency
Is the pResident really going to Rio?
I hope all the Krap happening around the world stops his and Moosechelles next vacation!
Then again I hope he goes and stays!
He flunked!
Obamah, the Donovan McNabb of American Presidents.
Glenn Thrush was reporter at Newsday
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he logged stories for places like the New York Times Magazine, New York, the New York Observer, Spin, the Village Voice, Metropolis and Guitar World, where his work appeared under the byline “Glenn Thrash.”
a former adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism School and NYU’s Science and Environmental Reporting Program
Not discipline. Just downright lazy & self indulgent.
Fiddling while Rome burns....or partying, vacationing,golfing or BBall bracket picking ...anything to avoid the hard work of leadership.
Ohhhh. So the chocolate ration has been RAISED
to 16 grams...
Glenn Thrush looks like V.I. Lenin trying to be Matt Drudge...
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