Obama defeated by his own bureaucracy

CNN ^ | May 30, 2014 | By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst

[Oldeconomybuyer]

When Barack Obama was a newbie president, there was no shortage of ambition or lack of confidence in the government he was about to lead. Government should be seen as a force for good, not evil. Sure, he told us, it needed to be "smarter and better," but that could—and would—happen under his watch.

Instead, the President is living his own version of "Alice Through the Looking Glass": staring down a rabbit hole of government bureaucracy and inefficiency. The government he has studiously tried to grow, manage and change has become his own personal nemesis. All of which makes you wonder: Does the President himself trust government anymore?

Government is unwieldy and difficult and hard to tame, sure. But if your presidency is based, in large part, on telling Americans that government can work for them--which it can--you need to make it work.

It's not that the President is a hopeless manager. He does very well when he leads a hierarchical organization with a single goal, like a presidential bid. He's top dog, he's not negotiating with anybody, and he's not trying to get people to do things they don't want to do. In a campaign, for instance, they all want to elect the same person: him.

But when you have to negotiate—or lead—people not related to you, or not indebted to you or who don't agree with you, it's a different story. Managing or negotiating with people with mixed motives (Congress, anyone?) is not an Obama strong point.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Anyone with half a brain knew Obama was incompetent in 2008. Now that a majority of folks in America and around the world know he's worthless the media is strapping on the kneepads.

[Don Corleone]

Poor Bambi! Poor Bambi! No one knows the troubles he’s seen./sarc

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I do not know which Murphy’s Law it is but it says that people rise to the level of their own incompetence.

[JaguarXKE]

More like Alice with her head where the sun don’t shine. BTW you can tell the author is a fan of government! Just sad that Obama couldn’t tame the beast.

[Fledermaus]

I’m so sick of hearing the federal government bureaucracy is “so hard to fix” and other crap.

Screw the unon, screw Congress...the chief executive should just clean house and FIRE worthless paper pushers. When was the last time any agency went through a payroll audit? No one can tell me there aren’t any ghosts employees.

[nascarnation]

If Gloria really believes it’s Baraq in charge and not ValJ, she’s even dumber than I thought.

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[nascarnation]

Those are the people that voted him in.
Govt unions are pretty much bulletproof today.

[DB]

It isn’t.

It is called the Peter Principle.

[onyx]

LOLOLOLOL

[Qiviut]

By nature, bureaucracies are hard to trust and even harder to tame. And if a chief executive isn't careful, it's an energy-sapping (and legacy endangering) vortex that sucks you right in. Just ask Obama, who was government's best friend.

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It's called being hoist with one's own petard.

[GeronL]

Another article trying to make excuses for Obama failures

[Blood of Tyrants]

Government is unwieldy and difficult and hard to tame

And the bigger it gets, the worse it gets.

[dforest]

Of course we all know, Hillary would do a whole lot better. Yeah, that is the ticket, we need a smarter Marxist and it will work next time. /extreme sarcasm

I do hope people are smarter than this. Marxism never works and it matters not who the tyrannical “leader” is.

[freeangel]

From CNN? Are the tables finally turning in an evil, twisted way to promote hildabeast as the next usa goddess who will save the world?

[Red Badger]

I don’t remember who said it, but they were right on:

The only way to defeat a liberal is to give them everything they want...................

[TexasCajun]

Gloria have you ever thought that Prince Barack hasn't even managed a lone lemon-aid stand!

Most unqualified President ever!

[clamper1797]

Peter Principle

[JimSEA]

That’s the “Peter Principle” by Laurance Peter, still a readable book but written in the 1960s. It’s still funny and accurate.

[Dick Bachert]