[Fledermaus]

I appreciate those great words. To me it is a level of degree. Someone loses my support when they clearly have no real organizational skills to be the chief executive of the United States.

Even if I had no idea who the hell Elvis was I’d think my organization can “brief me” when I’m going to give a speech in Memphis. Or I’d Google it.

Is that too hard these days?

[andy58-in-nh]

I agree that organizational skills are highly relevant to success in any executive leadership position. But there are other competencies, too, including intellectual capacity, maturity and judgment, communication skills, task orientation/prioritization, vision and strategy, "people management", and an ability to delegate.

Candidates for President all possess these skills to varying degrees and they do usually impact the direction and success of the campaigns of each. Sarah Palin for her part appears to me to have excellent people and prioritization skills, and has a greater vision than most; but she lacks substantive knowledge and communicates in a formulaic manner that does not pause to consider her audience. An important part of effective leadership is understanding what you do not yet know, but need to know, and then rapidly attaining such knowledge.

Barack Obama is an anomaly. He lacks most identifiable leadership skills except for one: a superficially appealing style of communication, in which he employs repetitive vocal cadences and musical tonality in the expression of high-sounding platitudes not recited from memory or internalized understanding, but read from a TelePrompter. Which makes him a fraud, and given his associations - a dangerous fraud.