Is Barack Obama a leader or a follower?
We all have watched President Obama during his impressive campaign speeches of hope and change, yet he came on the scene as a virtual unknown and still is.
I recall during one of his stump speeches, when questioned about his leadership and governing skills, and said he was indeed a leader, who has the experience and referred to his campaign of 2500 people involved, all under his leadership..Leadership ? I'm pretty certain that the daily activities and keeping the campaign on track, was more of action by others that actually delegated the events.
We know his tenure in the Illinois Senate was one of a follower, rather than leadership...There is no record of legislative signature bills and only piggybacked on other elder statesman's, who were the original signers and he simply back them.
His tenure in the US Senate was short to say the least, since much of his time was spent campaigning...
President Obama is a good listener, but appears overly cautious and uncertain on many major issues...Not what one expects from a leader..
When Barack Obama became President, his first action and a dismal failure, was appointments to key cabinet positions, where a few had to step aside and the ones that did get in, was simply on partisan lines and questionable to say the least... He did admit he screwed up, but did he screw up by not getting involved, again no leadership, or was the screw up by not anticipating the end result of his f?ting process...Again, another example of lack of leadership..
Then came the talk of the stimulus/spending bill...He wanted the finished product on his desk, pronto, without earmarks and pork and he would be involved in every step of the way..We now know that he was never even closely or remotely involved and allowed Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and her Democratic and lobbyist friends, to write the bill.
Upon signing the spending bill, he maintained his position of dire straights and the worse is still yet to come..He continued this same message of fear mongering and that we must have confidence in his spending bill..How can the folks have confidence, when the leader of the greatest country on earth, continues to expound with fear and dismay...This isn't a sign of leadership...The folks need to hear positive outlook and things will get much better, not this display and lack of confidence..The American people know very well that the economy is in the gutter..
I sometimes feel that President Obama who isn't totally honest with us, may even feel deep down that his spending bill won't work after all..He certainly is letting us in for a fall if it doesn't work and then, come back and say something like, well on my campaign trail, I did say it was a hard slog..Kind of inoculating himself for failure..
There are other recent and important events that display his lack of leadership.
Much talk about Gitmo and Electronic Snooping took front row seat during the campaign, where he repeatedly said that the first order, Gitmo would be closed and the pullback on snooping would be reviewed to insure Civil Liberties..Well Gitmo got put on the back burner for another year and as he stated many times on almost all controversial programs, "We are going to set up a commission to review these programs"..This is a position one takes, where there is no clear plan or objective and a level of uncertainty..
He was in Canada yesterday, his first foreign trip and was asked about NAFTA..His answer was a complete reversal from his campaign and although skirted around the question to throw the far left of his party a bone of appeasement...He still maintains his long standing position, but economics changed the equation..This is probably true, but free trade is part of the overall economic picture to secure the economy for future growth and again his stance on this issue during the campaign, was for the benefit of his far left party...
His position on Iraq is well known and that he would end and scale back US troops presence..The latter has nothing to do with him, as this was a big win for President Bush and handed Obama a no-brainer...We see now that isn't as easy as his long standing position and leaves Iraq to his Military advisors and smartly so..His position on Afghanistan is as well known..This was the real front on the war on terror, in his words...The phrase, the " War on Terror " is no longer acceptable and the Administration is having a very difficult time trying to come up with other terms to describe this, only to again, appease...What you are now witnessing, with respect to the War on Terror, is something you do not hear much about and the recent example is the movement of troops to Afghanistan..This has not been in the liberal press or Obama speaks much about..Probably a good thing, since it would only upset the liberal left of his party that hates everything military. As with the Clinton administration and generally with Democratic administrations of the past, Foreign policy always seem to take a back seat..This is partly due to the protectionism that Unions demand, since economic development and military go hand-in-hand and compromises is not in the equation.. Unions want their agenda to go global..lol
President Obama, unlike Bill Clinton, I believe is a man of deep conviction and principled and would like to do what HE believes is best for the country...Bill Clinton was all about Bill Clinton...
I don't view the same ideology as Obama..I have very little faith in a huge bureaucracies as the US Government, thinking they can best manage our way out of this current economic climate...A partnership of private and government is the best solution to get us back on track and the Obama administration and their socialist agenda, which we all know from history, is doomed to fail.
We now have the bailout of homeowners with another $75B spending bill for folks that in the first place, should not have gotten the home loan..Sure there are folks, that need help and rightfully so and most banks will be too eager to assist, since banks are not in the business to own homes and foreclosure is red ink on their books..This $75B awards bad behavior and continues with the failed policy of Freddie and Fannie that got us in this mess.
Well, this is now President Obama's economy and the War on Terror and the blame can no longer be put on the last administration...In time, these events will determine his presidency as successful or failure, but at the present, his leadership skills, still remains questionable..He is finding that it's much more difficult to be president, than campaigning for president..
The American people want our leaders to display a level of confidence and positive hope for our future and it would be advisable for President Obama to change his rhetoric, from doom and gloom, to a better tomorrow..Daily negative speeches only exacerbates the prolong recovery, as folks and business will continue to sit on the sidelines..This will go along way for the folks and give the spark that our economy needs during these hard and difficult times..
Have a good day
Varok
We all have watched President Obama during his impressive campaign speeches of hope and change, yet he came on the scene as a virtual unknown and still is.
I recall during one of his stump speeches, when questioned about his leadership and governing skills, and said he was indeed a leader, who has the experience and referred to his campaign of 2500 people involved, all under his leadership..Leadership ? I'm pretty certain that the daily activities and keeping the campaign on track, was more of action by others that actually delegated the events.
We know his tenure in the Illinois Senate was one of a follower, rather than leadership...There is no record of legislative signature bills and only piggybacked on other elder statesman's, who were the original signers and he simply back them.
His tenure in the US Senate was short to say the least, since much of his time was spent campaigning...
President Obama is a good listener, but appears overly cautious and uncertain on many major issues...Not what one expects from a leader..
When Barack Obama became President, his first action and a dismal failure, was appointments to key cabinet positions, where a few had to step aside and the ones that did get in, was simply on partisan lines and questionable to say the least... He did admit he screwed up, but did he screw up by not getting involved, again no leadership, or was the screw up by not anticipating the end result of his f?ting process...Again, another example of lack of leadership..
Then came the talk of the stimulus/spending bill...He wanted the finished product on his desk, pronto, without earmarks and pork and he would be involved in every step of the way..We now know that he was never even closely or remotely involved and allowed Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and her Democratic and lobbyist friends, to write the bill.
Upon signing the spending bill, he maintained his position of dire straights and the worse is still yet to come..He continued this same message of fear mongering and that we must have confidence in his spending bill..How can the folks have confidence, when the leader of the greatest country on earth, continues to expound with fear and dismay...This isn't a sign of leadership...The folks need to hear positive outlook and things will get much better, not this display and lack of confidence..The American people know very well that the economy is in the gutter..
I sometimes feel that President Obama who isn't totally honest with us, may even feel deep down that his spending bill won't work after all..He certainly is letting us in for a fall if it doesn't work and then, come back and say something like, well on my campaign trail, I did say it was a hard slog..Kind of inoculating himself for failure..
There are other recent and important events that display his lack of leadership.
Much talk about Gitmo and Electronic Snooping took front row seat during the campaign, where he repeatedly said that the first order, Gitmo would be closed and the pullback on snooping would be reviewed to insure Civil Liberties..Well Gitmo got put on the back burner for another year and as he stated many times on almost all controversial programs, "We are going to set up a commission to review these programs"..This is a position one takes, where there is no clear plan or objective and a level of uncertainty..
He was in Canada yesterday, his first foreign trip and was asked about NAFTA..His answer was a complete reversal from his campaign and although skirted around the question to throw the far left of his party a bone of appeasement...He still maintains his long standing position, but economics changed the equation..This is probably true, but free trade is part of the overall economic picture to secure the economy for future growth and again his stance on this issue during the campaign, was for the benefit of his far left party...
His position on Iraq is well known and that he would end and scale back US troops presence..The latter has nothing to do with him, as this was a big win for President Bush and handed Obama a no-brainer...We see now that isn't as easy as his long standing position and leaves Iraq to his Military advisors and smartly so..His position on Afghanistan is as well known..This was the real front on the war on terror, in his words...The phrase, the " War on Terror " is no longer acceptable and the Administration is having a very difficult time trying to come up with other terms to describe this, only to again, appease...What you are now witnessing, with respect to the War on Terror, is something you do not hear much about and the recent example is the movement of troops to Afghanistan..This has not been in the liberal press or Obama speaks much about..Probably a good thing, since it would only upset the liberal left of his party that hates everything military. As with the Clinton administration and generally with Democratic administrations of the past, Foreign policy always seem to take a back seat..This is partly due to the protectionism that Unions demand, since economic development and military go hand-in-hand and compromises is not in the equation.. Unions want their agenda to go global..lol
President Obama, unlike Bill Clinton, I believe is a man of deep conviction and principled and would like to do what HE believes is best for the country...Bill Clinton was all about Bill Clinton...
I don't view the same ideology as Obama..I have very little faith in a huge bureaucracies as the US Government, thinking they can best manage our way out of this current economic climate...A partnership of private and government is the best solution to get us back on track and the Obama administration and their socialist agenda, which we all know from history, is doomed to fail.
We now have the bailout of homeowners with another $75B spending bill for folks that in the first place, should not have gotten the home loan..Sure there are folks, that need help and rightfully so and most banks will be too eager to assist, since banks are not in the business to own homes and foreclosure is red ink on their books..This $75B awards bad behavior and continues with the failed policy of Freddie and Fannie that got us in this mess.
Well, this is now President Obama's economy and the War on Terror and the blame can no longer be put on the last administration...In time, these events will determine his presidency as successful or failure, but at the present, his leadership skills, still remains questionable..He is finding that it's much more difficult to be president, than campaigning for president..
The American people want our leaders to display a level of confidence and positive hope for our future and it would be advisable for President Obama to change his rhetoric, from doom and gloom, to a better tomorrow..Daily negative speeches only exacerbates the prolong recovery, as folks and business will continue to sit on the sidelines..This will go along way for the folks and give the spark that our economy needs during these hard and difficult times..
Have a good day
Varok
