Posted on 04/24/2009 10:43:10 AM PDT by Zakeet
It didn't take long for Barack Obama — for all his youth and inexperience — to get acclimated to his new role as the calming leader of a country in crisis.
"I feel surprisingly comfortable in the job," the nation's 44th president said a mere two weeks after taking the helm.
"The challenges are big," a sober Obama added, underscoring the foreign and domestic problems he inherited Jan. 20. "But one thing I'm absolutely convinced about is you want to be president when you've got big problems. If things are going too smoothly, then this is just another nice home office."
Over nearly 100 days as president, Obama has applied the same "no drama" leadership and calculated approach to governing that he did to campaigning.
As an audacious candidate, Obama meticulously built a powerhouse organization and fundraising juggernaut to engineer his victory. As a fledgling president, he similarly has mapped out a big-risk agenda that he's methodically begun to execute, keeping to the discipline that has been a hallmark of his life.
Rookie jitters? Far from it.
Confident almost to a fault, he could seem aloof, even arrogant at times in the campaign. He's kept that focused attitude in the White House, while exhibiting few flashes of any off-putting, self-important tone.
Perhaps that's because he's reached the pinnacle of his political ambition. Perhaps it's because anxious times of war and economic crisis demand a calm demeanor. Perhaps it's the sheer weight of the office and the urgent tasks.
Whatever the reason, Obama has seemed extraordinarily at ease as president from the day he took office — after a campaign in which he made a once skeptical electorate comfortable with the notion that a black, 47-year-old, first-term senator with limited experience could take over as the leader of the free world.
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this needs a BARF alert...
The adulation Presidency marches forward.
Barf!
Proving once more that 'ignorance is bliss'...
Obama is not an ignoramus. As fun as it is to call him a buffoon, bozo, etc., he most certainly is not ignorant or misinformed or misguided.
He knows his agenda, and is executing it. Every day.
The AP and MSM must be toppled, as they are his enablers. Middle America believes in Obama, and will continue to believe in him for as long as the MSM remains the source of Middle America’s (false) world view.
Of course he has. He only moves when the puppet strings are pulled, other than that he plays on the swings, and parties.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. , holds up a box of Dunkin' Donuts presented to him by Associated Press political reporter Liz Sidoti before a question and answer session at the Associated Press Annual Meeting in Washington, Monday, April 14, 2008.
0be's a mulatto, literally American-African, Marxist community organizer. And likely illegitimate under the US Constitution, as written.
The media/political alliance in Washington is pathetic, and harmful to our democracy. The MSM is in love with this socialist Rookie.
Does this mean the left will stop whining that we have to give Obama time to "turn things around" or "get his footing"? (Yeah, right.)
Liz Sodoti looks like a Meghan McCain, all grown up.
Someone should feed that puppy Liz a meaty-bone to calm her down. She’ll get hyperventilated from all that licking and panting.
Just wait until the hard part comes after an attack or in a crisis. His hair will be white within a year. Any person can be president when things are good—just wait until things are worse.
. . . perhaps it's because he is simply clueless as to what he has gotten himself into.
ROFLMAO....
VOMIT
“Perhaps that’s because he’s reached the pinnacle of his political ambition”
Let’s hope so. Where can he go from here? President-for-life? Emperor of the world? God II?
You contradicted yourself.
“Chi-town proved too much for the man,
So he’s leavin’ the life he’s come to know,
He said he’s goin’ back to find
Ooh, what’s left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He’s leaving,
On that midnight train to Kenya,
And he’s goin’ back
To a simpler place and time.
And I’ll be with him
On that midnight train to Kenya,
I’d rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.”
Gladys Sidoti and the Associated Pimps
Liz Idiot - this is nothing more than journalistic knee padding.
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