Posted on 11/04/2013 10:46:19 AM PST by mandaladon
WASHINGTON — A year after his reelection triumph, President Obama is facing an awkward question from friends and foes alike: Why can't he run the government as well as he ran his campaign?
What with the IRS targeting of tea party groups; the poor security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya; the eavesdropping on close allies; and the botched rollout of the landmark healthcare law, Obama increasingly seems to be battling top-level management failures as much as policy or political problems.
On each of these controversies, Obama has claimed ignorance before the fact and outrage afterward, leaving even some Democrats to see him as asleep at the wheel.
"There's a sort of distance in his style," said Elaine C. Kamarck, who led the Clinton administration's government reform effort and now is at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution. "On the one hand, he's not getting into terrible details like [President] Carter did. But on the other hand, it comes back to bite him because he seems to not know a lot of stuff that's going on."
That perception is growing. In public opinion surveys, Obama's job performance numbers have dropped sharply this year. One poll last week showed his approval down to 42%, a rate comparable to that of President George W. Bush after the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although unpredictable crises often upend presidents' second terms, some of Obama's worst problems seem self-inflicted.
The iPad-toting president who promised high-tech efficiency in government — even appointing the first chief performance officer, chief technology officer and team of innovation fellows at the White House — has launched his only major domestic policy program with a website that almost feels like a clunky relic from the dial-up age.
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I guess this guy missed the First Debate
It's different in the real world.
Because the MSM have had to now stop campaigning for him?
Now they are just trying to protect him and cover for him. But this was a trick question by the LA Times, right?
Very simple: Campaigns are merely promotional events...and can partly or completely rely on the manipulation and misleading of people.
Governance requires integrity.
Um...because running for office and actually performing in it are two different things? What do I win?
In practice there is.
Obama lied and cheated in his campaign, just the way he runs the government. He only won by cheating. But Romney let him do it. Just like Boner lets him do it.
Obama is a TV president, somebody who is willing to read constitutionally indefensible “promises” from a teleprompter. Such promises appeal to low-information voters who think that the government owes them something.
But while the teleprompter got Obama elected, the teleprompter doesn’t know how to run the Oval Office, not that the Founding States had intended for the Oval Office to run the country.
Exactly- I know tons about the game of football - theory, methods, goals, fundamentals, history and how teams win and lose.
I should be a lock to play for any team in the NFL
Problem is I’m 55 years old and couldn’t outrun a beetle.
Governance at this level requires integrity, leadership experience, executive experience, maturity, negotiation skills, patience, respect for the position, and more.
None is that is present in nobama.
And yet his party put him up and his media campaigned for him.
So here we are with a petulant man child trying to rule a country that is not set up to be ruled.
He ran a good campaign in 2008 to take out the Clintons. Campaigning and governing are two different concepts.
He didn’t have to run the campaign...and even when he blew it in the debates and public appearances, the press was there to repair things immediately.
We need to normalize the NFL so that it's fair to everybody. I've had a lifelong dream of playing defensive lineman crushed simply because I only weigh in at 150 pounds. I'm thinking we just cut a limb or three off the current guys until they can make weight and then we'll have social justice in the NFL.
Strangely, the commissioner doesn't seem interested in my ideas. He's probably a racist.
During the next presidential Election will Obama use the line ,”If you like your President you can keep him “ ? LOL
Why can’t Obama find his own ass with both hands?
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