Posted on 07/26/2011 4:51:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Leadership: Last Friday, at the end of his press conference on the debt, President Obama said: "I think if you want to be a leader, then you got to lead." Too bad Obama isn't taking his own advice.
It's possible that Obama thinks talking about an issue is the same as leading on it. After all, in July alone, the president has held three press conferences and a town hall, delivered three press briefings, a radio address and a prime-time speech — all devoted to the debt ceiling negotiations.
But in the real world, leadership means standing in front of the parade and directing its course. All Obama has done since the debt crisis emerged more than two years ago is posture, issue platitudes and try to score political points from the tail end of the march.
To get a sense of Obama's complete lack of leadership on this issue, it's worth going through a brief timeline.
• In February 2010, instead of producing a budget that tackled the national debt — which his own reckless spending caused — Obama appointed a bipartisan commission to tell him what to do. When the commission issued its findings in December, Obama ignored it.
• In his State of the Union speech in January, Obama said "now is the time to act" on the debt, and then produced a budget weeks later that proposed piling up $7 trillion in deficits over a decade. The debt commission's Democratic co-chair, Erskine Bowles, complained that the budget went "nowhere near where they will have to go to resolve our fiscal nightmare."
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Obama doesn’t know how to lead. All he knows how to do it say what the teleprompter tells him to.
I hope the eventual GOP nominee for President is memorizing this editorial. In 2012 Obama will finally have a record to run on.
$4 gas
10% unemployment
surging inflation
plunging home prices
recurring $1.5 trillion deficits
45 million on food stamps
If we can't beat him, we deserve him.
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