Posted on 04/27/2011 2:02:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When I covered George W. Bush’s White House, my job was made easier by the simplicity of the subject. The president had a few defining mantras — Cut taxes! Rally the base! Terrorists hate freedom! With us or against us! — and most of his decisions could be understood, even predicted, by applying one of the overarching philosophies.
With President Obama, there is no such luxury. The political right is befuddled as it tries to explain him: First, Obama was a tyrant and a socialist; now he’s a weakling who refuses to lead. The political left is almost as confused, demanding to know why Obama gave away so much on health care and in budget negotiations. Nearly everybody puzzles over Obama’s ad hoc responses to Egypt, Libya and now Syria, grasping for a still-elusive Obama Doctrine.
Seeking a template to understand the enigmatic president, I consulted three leading academics in the fields of psychology and behavior. With their help, I put Obama on the couch and came away with a reasonably coherent diagnosis: There’s too much going on in the poor guy’s head.
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...........In an ideal world, complex and rational thought would be virtues. But in politics, these attributes can make Obama seem ambiguous, without toughness or principles. “It isn’t because he lacks a moral compass — it’s because he understands there are a lot of moral forces at play,” U-Va.’s Haidt says. “This is why people get frustrated with him. The more of a partisan you are, the more simple-minded you are.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"First and foremost, it's about not making a mistake," said Chris Lehane, who advised Vice President Al Gore during his 2000 debates, when Gore's loud sighing greatly damaged his cause. "It's about remembering people are not watching this like they're scoring a Harvard-Yale debate. They're watching this like they watch a TV show." Source
Obama has Teleprompter in Staff Meetings.
My husband just read this and remarked, “They think conservatives are a bunch of toothless rubes, playing a banjo all day long with a hound dog at our feet.”
Wait... Is that a real picture? He can’t even have a meeting without a teleprompter? With his own people??
He’s a freakin moron that is someones puppet. Why else would he need a teleprompter in such a meeting???
Where’s the “BARF ALERT”?!?!?!
How does one cleanse their mind after reading this partisan tripe psychobabble?
Sometimes the “telepromter fails.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc&feature=player_embedded
That's why he doesn't know whether he's Moslem or Christian, or homo- or heterosexual.
ROFL
Complex and rational thought? Good grief, Dana...how much of the Kool-Aid did you drink?
The economy? Bush's fault.
Entangled in the Middle East? Cheney and big oil caused it.
Racial polarization? The Tea Party.
The deficit? Fat cats not paying 'their share'.
And now, of course, it's not that 0's a narcissistic bully that people don't appreciate the elegance of his thought; it's because all us peons is too stoopid to understand the complexity of his mind.
Perhaps, if 0 considered the needs of the country ahead of his golf games, if he kept at least one of his promises that would benefit the U.S.,
maybe, if 0 would put as much effort and forethought into leadership as he put into picking the bracket for collegiate basketball,
or even if he would practice the bi-partisanship he keeps hyping (even though he plays school-yard 'nyah nyah' games while doing that hyping),
MAYBE, people would begin to see 0 as a leader, rather than the poseur he has proven himself to be.
Excellent. I wonder why Milbank didn’t run the “This is the moment the planet hegan to heal...” quote past the perfessers— what kind of diagnosis do you get out of that?
Doesn't this statement negate the premise of the article?
No clothes is difficult to pull off ...Obama is a lousy liar but that hasnt slowed him down a bit
The guy is manufactured.
To sum up the article:
If only we mortals could comprehend the wonderfulness that is Obama.
“..and most of his[BUSH] decisions could be understood, even predicted, by applying one of the overarching philosophies.
With President Obama, there is no such luxury.”
HOGWASH!
The so-called Obama doctrine is simple.
If something will weaken America’s standing in the world, then he’s all for it.
If something will damage traditional American culture, society, and culture, then he’s all for it.
He’s a marxist, not a complex or enigmatic “thinker.”
I believe all his life he's been fed this hogwash, about how brilliant a mind he has and how great a thinker he is, and he probably believes it himself. Personally, I don't buy any of it for a moment.
Brilliant social and political analyst? Please! The man's not brilliant. Mediocre, at best, and probably too lazy to put the effort into even being that.
Oh, okay - that’s why Obama talks out of two sides of his mouth at the same time, can’t make up his mind, and has no set policy on anything (except for taking as much money as he can from everybody who still has any).
It’s because he’s “complex.”
I see - he only acts like an irresponsible idiot because he has a high IQ.
Or something.
The latest mime from the Idiot Leftists in the Press, who are doing everything they can to salvage this political assclown.
I'm guessing George Soros and Bill Ayers to name a couple of the puppetmasters.
From the comments @ WaPo nobody is buying the crap Milbank is writing but these MFMedia cranks are determined to die trying to convince the unwashed about their messiah. It’s becoming unbecoming.
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