Posted on 02/16/2011 11:04:13 AM PST by nkronos
As with the Chicago Olympic bid, Gates-Cambridge Police fiasco, and even the BP oil spill. Obama believed the proper role of executive was to get other people together to do things and perhaps apply some personal pressure–and by that I mean not the weight of the presidency, but the force of his own personality. In Obama’s eyes, it’s arguable which he sees as greater. Also note that in those four events, the level of Obama’s own apparent involvement was of a similar magnitude, despite the varying magnitude of importance to the United States and the world. A typical posture by Obama was his declaration regarding BP that he would keep his boot on the neck of BP executives–metaphorically, not the best way to facilitate the getting of things done, nor exactly offering any ideas either. Instead, Obama walked the beach with petroleum and clean-up engineers, lecturing journalists about how tar balls work. This is the technique of the graduate student who does not know the answer to the actual question, so regurgitates facts he has crammed just before the exam to show he does know *something*.
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Neville Chamberlain had exactly the same type of belief in his own powers of diplomatic persuasion.
—Woodrow Wilson was another one-—
Obama needs to be impeached, tried for treason and sentenced by a jury of military families who lost loved ones due to Obama’s insane rules of engagement.
bumping because the title is brilliant
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