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Couldn't agree more with this article.



Americans are finally getting it. They have elected a leader with no "American" experiences.

Where are the photos of him out on picnics, playing little league baseball, attending the prom?

Where are the wholesome images of a little Barry Obama as a kid?

Is it because all the photos reveal something that his handlers don't want you to see?



We have elected a non-American to be our President.

A person that does not have American Values or interests at heart.



He's more like the millions of illegal aliens that have no allegience to America.

They want to illegally migrate to our country, instead of fighting for their own country

to make it a better place and rid it of corruption.



America had better wake up in November!
 
Be warned of those of his own party that are turning on him. Obama's usefulness to those using him is ending. I surely won't argue on his behalf but he is a tool (yes, that kind too !) for much worse plans.:soap::soap::fire:
 
I like him. And the dozens of people that I call friends like him. Sure, there are a few criticisms, but nothing that warrants name-calling or loathing.



I belong to another forum that is dominated by conservatives. The vitriol spewing from them is amazing. Absolute get-a-rope hatred. Most of them started in well before the primaries got underway. Makes me wonder how they could despise Obama before they even knew what his plans for the country were.

 
We need a leader, not a politician



Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows "whose ass to kick." We have become accustomed to his management style -- target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack. To win health care legislation, he vilified insurance executives; to escape bankruptcy law for General Motors, he demonized senior lenders; to take the focus from the excesses of government, he castigated business meetings in Las Vegas; and to deflect responsibility for the deepening and lengthening downturn, he blames Wall Street and George W. Bush. But what may make good politics does not make good leadership. And when a crisis is upon us, America wants a leader, not a politician.



We saw leadership on Sept. 11, 2001. Then as now, black billows seemed to come from the center of the earth. Lives had been lost. The environmental impact was immeasurable. The looming economic impact from lost tourism was incalculable. Into the crisis walked Rudy Giuliani. While that was an incomparable human tragedy, how the mayor led New York City to recover is a useful model for the president.



Rudy camped out at Ground Zero -- he didn't hole up in his office or retreat to his residence. His presence not only reassured the people of New York that someone was in charge, it also enabled the mayor to assess the situation firsthand, to take the measure of the people he had on the ground, and to understand the scope of the crisis.



The president has many critical matters that demand his attention, but brief and tardy tours and being photographed with a smudge of oil on a sandy beach don't work on any level. There is no substitute for being there.



In a crisis, the leader must gather the experts -- federal, state, local, public and private not to discover who is to blame but to secure their active and continuous involvement until the crisis is resolved. There is extraordinary power inherent in an assembly of brilliant people guided by an able leader. In virtually every historic national crisis, our most effective leaders gathered the best minds they could find consider the Founders in Philadelphia, Lincoln with his "Team of Rivals," Roosevelt with scientists and generals seeking to end World War II, Kennedy with the "Best and Brightest" confronting the Cuban missile crisis.



What happens when men and women of various backgrounds, fields of expertise, and unfettered intellectual freedom come together to tackle a problem often exceeds any reasonable expectation. Ideas from one may cross-fertilize the thinking of another, yielding breakthroughs. The president of MIT told me that the university spent millions of dollars to build a bridge connecting two engineering departments that had been separated by a road the potential for shared thinking made it more than worth the cost.



But even a gathering of experts won't accomplish much unless a skilled leader uses their perspective to guide the recovery. So far, it has been the CEO of BP who has been managing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president surely can't rely on BP -- its track record is suspect at best: Its management of this crisis has been characterized by obfuscation and lack of preparation. And BP's responsibilities to its shareholders conflict with the greater responsibility to the nation and to the planet.



The president must personally lead the effort to solve the crisis. He cannot delegate this quintessential responsibility of his presidency in the way he delegated the stimulus bill, the cap-and-trade bill and the health care bill. It may be an instance of learning on the job, but it is a job only he can do.



The first rule of turnarounds is to focus time, energy and resources on what matters most. The president simply cannot treat this crisis like another of his many problems. The oil disaster could hurt millions of families, slam the regional economy, kill untold numbers of non-human lives and irreparably damage the planet. Among other things, he must not hold more rock concerts at the White House. I understand James Carville's venting: His hero fiddled as oil churned.



Finding fault is easier than finding answers. And worse, it paralyzes many of the very people who may be needed to solve a crisis. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast states, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco went on the attack; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour went to work. His state's recovery is textbook; hers is not.



President Obama's instigation of criminal investigations of BP at this juncture is classic diversion politics and worse, it will engender bunker mentality at a time when collaboration and openness are most critical. BP's actions and inactions are reprehensible; it must be made to pay the billions upon billions of dollars that this spill will ultimately cost. But call out the phalanx of lawyers later -- solve the crisis today.



The president can learn a good deal from the crisis leadership of men and women in government and in business. Giuliani is a notable example, but so too are Washington, Adams, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan and Kennedy. In a time of national crisis, we look to our president to acknowledge, as Harry Truman did, that it is at his desk where the buck stops.



And even at Day 52, it's better late than never.



Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, was a Republican presidential candidate in 2008.
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We have become accustomed to his management style target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack.
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It's not that we have become accustomed to a "blame and attack" style. It's that we, as humans, demand that style from our elected officials. We need our pound of flesh. And any elected official who wants to remain an elected official is therefore obliged to provide it. It's been that way, not only for the Obama administration, and not only for every recent presidential administration, but for all of recorded human history. People feel they have a need for an assignable cause for what ails them, and they want someone to suffer some sort of "justice" as a result. Heck, even this article uses a "blame and attack" style, by blaming Obama and attacking him.



I'm not saying at all that what Obama is doing is right or wrong. Just that it's what we, as humans, demand from our leaders.
 
Read some of the comments that follow the op-ed piece. Very polarized. One person said the same thing I was thinking about it's amazing that USAToday actually ran that!
 
Makes me wonder how they could despise Obama before they even knew what his plans for the country were.
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It didn't take rocket science to know his presidency would be a failure...
 
I bet Les, Traintrac, and bud would actually want George Bush Back! Oh how the misinformed forget so quickly!
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Nope, me neither. Actually, you're the one who's woefully misinformed, Frank. You always make uninformed, sweeping generalizations and presumptions about folks without ever taking time to engage in a civil, productive discussion with them and really get to know them.



Proper credit for this goes to Michelle Malkin, but I agree with it 100%:

Things I dont miss about George W. Bush

By Michelle Malkin February 9, 2010 02:04 PM



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Sorry to be a wet blanket, but someone has to do it.



The Miss Me Yet? billboard (inspired by Jonathan Maneys t-shirts) is cute. But lets not get carried away with nostalgia.



President Bush put America on the proper war footing after 9/11 and deserves much credit for doing so, but he also:



1) joined with open-borders progressives McCain and Kennedy to try to force shamnesty down our throats;



2) massively expanded the federal role in education;



3) championed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement using phony math;



4) kowtowed to the jihadi-enabling Saudis;



5) stocked DHS with incompetents and cronies;



6) pushed Hillarycare for housing;



7) enabled turncoat Arlen Specter;



8. nominated crony Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court;



9) pre-socialized the economy for Obama by embracing TARP, the auto bailouts, the AIG bailout, and in his own words:



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Ive abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.

George W. Bush



No, I dont miss having a corporate socialist Republican in the White House any more than I like having a corporate socialist Democrat in the White House now.



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