The secret team who programs the teleprompter (the real U.S. President) and the handsome non thinking spokesman (Obama) make mistakes covered up by the Liberal mainstream media!
Bow-ow-ow:
Obama’s
Painful Missteps
by Camille Paglia
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April 8th, 2009
SALON.COM
Dear Camille,
In your column, you say,
“President Obama has been
ill-served by his
advisors and staff.”
The primary job requirement
of a good senior executive is
the ability to judge character
and ability,
in order to be able to select people
to whom responsibilities may be
safely delegated.
If these advisors and
staff are inadequate,
the responsibility for their failures
should be laid at the feet of the person
who was ultimately responsible for
their selection and placement.
Charles
Pennsylvania
You are absolutely correct!
The buck stops with
the top executive.
But we all know how little executive
experience Barack Obama has had.
.
He was elected for his
vision and his steady,
deliberative character,
not his résumé.
For better or worse,
Obama is learning as he goes —
and surely most fair-minded people
would grant him reasonable leeway
as he grows into the presidency,
one of the hardest jobs in the world.
.
At a certain point, however,
Obama will face an
inescapable administrative crux.
Arriving at the White House,
he understandably stayed in
his comfort zone by bringing old
friends and allies with him —
a team that had had a fabulous
success in devising the hard-as-nails
strategy that toppled the Clintons,
like crumbling colossi,
into yesterday’s news.
But these comrades may not
have the practical skills or broad
perspective to help Obama govern.
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Like Shakespeare’s Prince Hal
ascending the throne,
Obama may have to steel his heart
and banish Falstaff and the whole
frat-house crew.
Obama’s staffing
problems are blatant —
from that bleating boy of a
treasury secretary to what appears
to be a total vacuum where a chief
of protocol should be.
There has been one
needless gaffe after another —
from the president’s tacky appearance
on a late-night comedy show to the
kitsch gifts given to the British
prime minister,
followed by the sweater-clad first
lady’s over-familiarity with the
queen and culminating in the
jaw-dropping spectacle of a president
of the United States bowing
to the king of Saudi Arabia.
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Why was protest about
the latter indignity confined
to conservatives?
The silence of the major
media was a disgrace.
But I attribute that embarrassing
incident not to Obama’s sinister
or naive appeasement of the
Muslim world but to a simple
if costly breakdown in basic
command of protocol.
Enough already!
These slips are worsening
the anti-Obama backlash,
which began with the administration’s
bungled handling of the grotesquely
swollen stimulus package.
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Conservatives seem deliriously
drunk with their cartoon picture
of Obama,
to whom is glibly attributed
every pathology in the book.
Yes, there were ambiguities
about Obama’s birth certificate
that have never been
satisfactorily resolved.
And the embargo on Obama’s
educational records remains
troubling.
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But I am still waiting for hard
evidence about the host of
other charges that are continually
being hammered against him —
from his alleged fidelity to the
crypto-tactics of Chicago leftist
Saul Alinsky to the questions
raised by right-wingers about
the production of Obama’s
two memoirs.
Out of respect for the presidency,
conservatives need to put up or
shut up about these issues.
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I still strongly believe in Obama’s
promise as a world leader.
I was thrilled, for example,
by his call this week for
an end to nuclear weapons —
a goal that he frankly admitted
would not be attained
in his lifetime.
.
We have waited a long time
for an American president
who dreams big.
Yes, there are bitter cells of
fanatics everywhere who hate
America and want
a repeat of 9/11.
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And yes,
there will always be petty
dictators who covet the bomb
and conspire to get it.
But the mass of people around
the world want to be inspired
to a higher good.
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Whether the Obama presidency
succeeds or fails will depend
on his ability to sustain his
ideals in the face of the testing
crises that will inevitably erupt
in far-flung regions where ethnic
or religious strife has been
a way of life for thousands
of years.
And closer to home,
Obama will need to cut the
umbilical to his hometown posse,
whose inefficiency and poor
decision-making took the shine
off his honeymoon and brought
the dispirited Republicans
back from the dead.
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CZAR OBAMA WITHOUT
HIS TELEPROMPTER
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