Sunday, January 3, 2010

Obama looking for Leadership

One skill our still-new President has not mastered is the skill of executive leadership at the Presidential level. Cases in point:

1. Calling out Cambridge police as "acting stupidly" while admitting he did not have the facts

2. Urging Americans not to "rush to judgement" after a radical Muslim murdered many servicemen and women at Ft. Hood.

And now one day he is excoriating the CIA and then the next day lauding their patriotism. Which is is Mr. Presidnet?

Leadership requires a larger field of view than a leader's pet position on given issues or his private snap judgements about specific performance for those who work for him or with him. The larger field of view is needed in order to judge these issues in the context of broader objectives than just calling people to task one day versus the next.

Again, President Obama goes to form: he was and still is a Community Organizer. Setting up straw-men and straw-issues to create leverage. Never having to be accountable for how he has used people for his single-minded goals. You are now governing (not ruling by the way) a nation. Not a local ACORN or SEIE cabel.

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