Posted on 09/18/2013 5:48:18 PM PDT by Libloather
President Barack Obama says that he is less concerned with scoring style points for his improvisational handling of the Syria crisis than in getting the policy right. This dismissive defense comes at the precise moment that Washington is awash in brutal critiques of the Obama leadership style.
The presidents harried, serial about-faces on Syria coupled with the collapse of Larry Summers's candidacy for chairmanship of the Federal Reserve have combined to highlight some enduring limitations of Obamas approach to decision-making, public persuasion and political management.
Across the capital, anxious friends and chortling enemies alike are asking: Whats wrong with Obama?
**SNIP**
His mind
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It has become part of our culture to consider them as being different, for example the media tends to call a mass murderer a psychopath and someone who does not murder a sociopath.
But, according to the real experts, even if there are differing degrees of psychopathy, the two terms describe the same problem.
Ya see, Laz, this Syrian thing was Barry's Secret Plan All Along. He used the threat of good'ole USA military muscle to make this bad guy Assad back on down and come to the table. These chemical weapons, these WMD's or whateva, are real bad and Barry did it for the children of Syria, who are now all alive and well and doing well in school. They could have all been his sons and daughters... even the dead Christian kids massacred in villages by his friends and allies among the jihadis.
Barry used that Putin guy like a shine rag and got him to do all the heavy lifting. Not bad for a disbarred gay community organizer, eh?
Yup. That's what happened, OK? Our Mr. Tough Guy! All this talk of an attempt to "Wag the Dog" is racis.
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