Here's Ron Fournier in the National Journal insisting that Obama should
really clean house: "
What a real White House shakeup looks like"
For his sake and ours, Obama must fire himself. He needs to recognize that, for all of his strengths as a person and a politician, he's shown an astonishing lack of growth on the job. Obama won't evolve unless he replaces enablers with truth-tellers—advisers unafraid of telling the president he's wrong.
He suggests a new chief of staff: Leon Panetta, who is the only Democrats in Washington willing to state that the emperor has no clothes.
He's the Mark Sanchez of presidents - may have been good his first two years, massive regression since then.
ReplyDeleteThat National Journal's analysis of Barack Obama's unique problem - The President has surrounded himself with yes men! He's not listening to the right people! - is reminiscent of this Onion article:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theonion.com/articles/report-presidents-washington-through-bush-may-have,20/
Ah yes! It doesn't matter how stunningly inept, shamelessly lying, and monumentally divisive Obama is, because look over there! Other presidents also weren't perfect!
ReplyDeleteMove along! Nothing to see here!
Move along! Nothing to see here!
ReplyDeleteClever, the way you endorsed one-size-fits-all analysis with a generic line that's been used for 50,000 different online debates.
...and a line that seems to be the theme of 50,000 different comments of your own at this blog.
ReplyDeleteOoh, the "I'm rubber, you're glue" response. Are you trying to fill an Internet Cliche Bingo card?
ReplyDeleteUhhhm...
ReplyDeleteThe "generic line" wasn't an argument I was making, but a summing up of your strategy whenever you post a comment here. Thus I wasn't "endorsing" it, I was pitying it.
Tough to expect you to understand something so subtle though, I know.
"My last post was obviously over your head." BINGO!
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