What Now?
onward Progressive community organizer
This is about the time Barack Obama becomes bored with his job.
He’s in his second year as president, and he’s discovered that even with all the powers of office, he can’t do everything he wants to do, like remake America. Doing stuff is hard. In the past, prosaic work has held little appeal for Obama, and it’s prompted him to think about moving on....
At a Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Day event at Washington’s Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Obama brought up the fact that many people see him as almost preternaturally calm. “I have a confession to make,” Obama said. “There are times I’m not so calm ... when progress seems too slow ... when it feels like all these efforts are for naught, and change is so painfully slow in coming, and I have to confront my own doubts."
“Painfully slow”
Diane Sawyer asked whether Obama would sometimes “sit and confront your own doubts.”
“Yes,” the president said.
Anyone buyin’ that?
throughout his life, his reaction to frustration has been to look for a bigger job. What does he do now?
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“throughout his life, his reaction to frustration has been to look for a bigger job. What does he do now?”
Emperor of the World?
This next article may explain a lot:
“The Obama White House is geared for campaigning rather than governing,...”
He’s been campaigning for the next level ever since he stepped out on the Chicago streets.
“... the president draws on the advice of a very tight circle. The inner core consists of just four people – Rahm Emanuel, the pugnacious chief of staff; David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, his senior advisers; and Robert Gibbs, his communications chief.”
This must be what they mean by “diversity”.
“...few can think of an administration that has been so dominated by such a small inner circle.”
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“ “Every event is treated like a twist in an election campaign and no one except the inner circle can be trusted to defend the president,” says an exasperated outside adviser.”Now here’s the good part:
“Administration insiders say the famously irascible Mr Emanuel treats cabinet principals like minions.”
His health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, has been out of the loop. Interior secretary Salazar and Homeland Security secretary Napolitano are rarely heard (in her case, that’s a plus).
While I’m at it, let’s look at the country’s greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan talking about the Navy:
Obama Mispronounces “Corpsman"
“While speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama mispronounced the word “Corpsman” as “corpse-man.”
Posted by ZZMike on 02/08/10 at 01:43 AM
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