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Gentle White House Nudges Test the Power of Persuasion (Obama's limp-wristed leadership style)
NY Times ^ | 2/23/09 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Posted on 02/23/2010 8:12:26 PM PST by jimbo123

Tempers were fraying in the White House Cabinet Room as night turned into morning on Jan. 15. President Obama had been cloistered nearly all day with House and Senate Democrats, playing “marriage counselor,” an aide said, as he coaxed, cajoled and prodded them on a health care overhaul.

As the clock neared 1 a.m., the two sides were at an impasse. Mr. Obama stood up.

“ ‘See what you guys can figure out,’ ” one participant remembers him saying, adding that the failed effort left the president mad. Another Democrat who was there, Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, said Mr. Obama left “frustrated that while he was putting out ways to bridge the problem, we hadn’t reached a conclusion.”

Ever since his days as a young community organizer in Chicago, Mr. Obama has held fast to the belief that by listening carefully and appealing to reason he can bring people together to get results, an approach that in Washington has often come up short.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: betamale; fag; homo; obama; pansy; weeweedoutofcloset; wimp

1 posted on 02/23/2010 8:12:26 PM PST by jimbo123
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“David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, said in an interview. “I would love to live in a world where the president could snap his fingers or even twist arms and make change happen, but in this great democracy of ours, that’s not the way it is.”


Sounds like the gentle Mr. Axelrod yearns for his very own Chavezesque regime.


2 posted on 02/23/2010 8:18:54 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: jimbo123
Tempers were fraying in the White House Cabinet Room as night turned into morning on Jan. 15. President Obama had been cloistered nearly all day with House and Senate Democrats, playing “marriage counselor,” an aide said, as he coaxed, cajoled and prodded them on a health care overhaul.

Imagine how tense it would have been if any Republicans were present.
3 posted on 02/23/2010 8:19:23 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: bootless
I would love to live in a world where the president could snap his fingers or even twist arms and make change happen

And yet, he based his entire campaign on the fact that he can snap his fingers and make change happen.

As for twisting arms, there's only so many times you can pull the old "we'll unseal your divorce papers" gambit.
4 posted on 02/23/2010 8:21:58 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: bootless

EXACTLY!!!! God, help us.


5 posted on 02/23/2010 8:23:21 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: jimbo123
There are community organizers, there are executives and there are leaders.

Obama is a community organizer.

6 posted on 02/23/2010 8:23:44 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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“ ‘See what you guys can figure out,’ ” one participant remembers him saying, adding that the failed effort left the president mad. Another Democrat who was there, Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, said Mr. Obama left “frustrated that while he was putting out ways to bridge the problem, we hadn’t reached a conclusion.”

So 0bozo the commie pig usurper gets all in a snit because no one is listening to the petulant little baby, and then leaves the room, while telling others to work it out. Yah, real good 0bozo, you dumb ass POS. Always blaming someone else for your own failures.

Hey 0bozo, you skinny kenyan prick! You failed again!

7 posted on 02/23/2010 8:26:29 PM PST by rcrngroup
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"Sounds like the gentle Mr. Axelrod yearns for his very own Chavezesque regime."

That's what this attempted government take over of our health care feels like. Like a dictatorship forcing it's will on the people.

8 posted on 02/23/2010 8:26:38 PM PST by GloriaJane (Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
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Awww the poor little boy king can’t get his way so he stomps his feet and runs home crying....... What a little useless wimp if Bill Clinton hadn’t already used the codename Impotus would be a great secret service code name for BO


9 posted on 02/23/2010 8:26:49 PM PST by jakerobins
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Obama has held fast to the belief that by listening carefully and appealing to reason

this writer has missed her calling - she should apply as comedy writer for Leno or someone

Obama has held fast to the belief that by listening carefully ONLY to himself and appealing to reason blackmailing or bribing...

There, fixed it.

10 posted on 02/23/2010 8:42:37 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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Perhaps 0bama’s best fit would be in directing the redesign of the new non-chokable hot dog for our politically correct world.

He could use his community organizer skills to negotiate the use of the creepy Burger King guy's crown and Toyota could design an all new "friendly" Prius wiener-mobile to drive him about town. I know I'd feel a lot better./s

11 posted on 02/23/2010 9:01:57 PM PST by mplsconservative (0bama = Epic Fail)
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To: rcrngroup
Obama's white side throwing a temper tantrum...


12 posted on 02/23/2010 9:22:14 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Question Liberal Authority

They would just blame the Republicans.


13 posted on 02/23/2010 9:31:33 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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“ ‘See what you guys can figure out,’ ” one participant remembers him saying, adding that the failed effort left the president mad”

“mad”??? I already new he was rabid. It would have been fun to see him fothing at the mouth.


14 posted on 02/23/2010 10:06:59 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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