The do-er and the thinker
Bookworm on Oct 23 2009 at 3:46 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Apropos Obama’s inability to make a decision regarding Afghanistan, Flopping Aces has a photo essay highlighting the difference between Bush and Obama.
Thinking about it, Obama might have benefitted measurably from being in the military. (And Bush’s stint in the National Guard counts as military service.) As the Lieutenant to whom I spoke while touring the U.S.S. Green Bay said, people in the military are willing to make decisions. They may not always make the right ones, but they’ll make them and they’ll own up to them. How different from our current leader who decides nothing, admits nothing, and blames everybody else. What a weenie.
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What you see is what you get.
The only “executive” experience ∅bama had was chairing the Annenberg Challenge, where he most likely rubber stamped the grant supplicants that Billy Ayers steered to him. With matching funds, over $100 million in research monies were handed out, resulting in NO DIFFERENCE between the schools that “benefited” from Annenberg research funds and those schools that did not. While ∅bama gained experience in doling out money, he showed no accomplishment in results achieved from doling out the money. Think of the NSF as a welfare agency.
Yes, ∅bama would have benefited from the decision making that time in the Armed Forces would have given him. But he does well at deciding to visit a hamburger joint or to have a pizza flown in in from the Midwest. Some comic said that since he took six months to select a dog for the White House, we should not be surprised at his difficulty in making more consequential decisions.
Another point about making decisions is that we often have to make them with incomplete information, which involves judgment. Unfortunately for the POTUS and for us, such judgment is usually painfully acquired by experience.
Perhaps this is beating a dead horse, as I have already mentioned this in other places over the months, and perhaps here also. Last year I asked myself: how does Obama’s experience in various posts compare to Presidents who were also US Senators?
I used the following metric for Presidents who had been US Senators.
US House of Representatives experience
US Vice President experience
US Cabinet experience
Governor experience
Military experience.
There was one President who had been a US Senator who had none of the above experience: Warren Harding.
That metric also describes President Obama.
What you see is what you get.
It is a sad comment on our country that we elected such a doofus.
The people that elected Obama were smart, very smart. At least, what’s they said.
Obviously they were smart enough to be conned and that is a title deserving of respect. Not all of us can be smart enough to fall to Nigerian email scams, loan scams, and so forth.
More unbelievable stuff…
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You always got to watch the Dems, Suek. You never know when they’ll go for the backstab, underhanded thrust. All you do know is that they will, sooner or later. They can’t help themselves.
suek, that is scary.