Debt Crisis Shows Obama Lacks Presidential Skills (Now they tell us!)

US News and World Report ^ | July 29, 2011 | Mary Kate Cary

[2ndDivisionVet]

He wasn't even a law professor, he was a lecturer, which is the bottom of the totem poll, as I understand it.

[clintonh8r]

Captain Obvious checks in!

[DennisR]

Most dictators do not like to negotiate...

[bigbob]

Welcome to the Obamanation!

[cookcounty]

"Maybe it's because Hillary Clinton's "three in the morning" ad was right—maybe he just doesn't have the experience to be president. Of the top 100 jobs that would qualify one to be president, being a law professor isn't one of them. A plumber would be better qualified than a law professor. Seriously—a plumber is a problem solver who has to keep customers happy. A used car salesman knows how to close a deal. A UPS deliveryman knows how to meet a deadline. A diplomat knows how to be, well, diplomatic. Meaning he doesn't lecture people about "eating their peas" when he needs them to jump on board. "

Reminds me of William Buckley's remark to the effect that "he would rather be governed by 100 names drawn at random from the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University."

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think the birthday boy was just distracted with the planning of his upcoming, big birthday party extravganza with all the hoods in Chicago. LOL!

[morkfork]

An adjunct lecturer. A part timer that is not tenure track. IOW, a part time guy for a limited amount of time. A temp that is now president.

[Rennes Templar]

“Of the top 100 jobs that would qualify one to be president, being a law professor isn’t one of them.”

Good Lord if the MSM weren’t so blinded by their obscene idolotry of the great pretender they would have reported this back in 2007.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Obama is a broken window politician.

[Mortrey]

Mary Cate!!!!!! Shame on you!!!! Did you go to Harvard? Are you an example of affirmative action? (Employer....please take THIS out of her paycheck.....)

“it’s became clear...”

[nopardons]

True that and his class was on RACE........how to use it to sue.

[Travis McGee]

What kind of an idiot says, during intense negotiations,

“Dont call my bluff!”

He never ran a lemonade stand. He never negotiated a contract.

[Cheetahcat]

Damn here all the while ,we have Nincompoop in the oval office,I thought the Rats Knew their Shuffling & Childish PET a little better than that?

[Bean Counter]

[Mortrey]

oh....and Mary Cate....did you find his school records or talk to his professors?

[GatorGirl]

Right and he isn’t even currently a lawyer!! He lost his license!!!!

[tlb]

>>> Most dictators do not like to negotiate...

Hyperbole doesn’t help us one bit. He is simply a failed president. And his failure was pre-ordained by the contempt in which he holds the people he is supposed to lead, and his failure to prepare for the realities and needs of the job.

[Lazlo in PA]

Being a plumber or a used car salesman—or a union organizer or a men's clothing store owner or the liaison to Communist China—requires you to know how to deal with people and how to negotiate in good faith. Being a law professor doesn't.

Hey Mary. Where were you in the '08 election with these observations? This woman is a clueless dope.

[vbmoneyspender]

The happiest man in the world right now is John Boehner. Obama saved Boehner from agreeing to an $800 billion dollar tax hike (and thereby ending his speakership) when Obama made an additional $400 billion demand at the last minute.

[Huskrrrr]

US Snooze. Another one of those wafer-thin publications headed for Palookaville.