{"id":4084,"date":"2010-12-13T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/americas-novice-in-chief-smells-the-coffee.html"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T09:46:00","slug":"americas-novice-in-chief-smells-the-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/americas-novice-in-chief-smells-the-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"America’s Novice in Chief smells the coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown<\/em>. Henry IV, Part 2; Act 3<\/em><\/div>\n

America\u2019s President, one President Barack Obama, is having troubles<\/a>.\u00a0 Poll numbers are down, general pessimism is up, and a growing number of Americans are starting to get the sneaky feeling that President Obama doesn\u2019t know what he is doing.\u00a0 This comes hard on the heels of a much publicized round of international failures, followed by increasingly dour appraisals of his ability to control his own party.\u00a0 In addition, his decision to bring in the Big Dog, the former finagler in chief himself, Bill Clinton, only compounded the notion that President Obama is losing control and losing it fast.\u00a0 His rather off the cuff excuse for bolting and letting Clinton make love to the media<\/a> \u2013 that he had kept his wife waiting \u2013 fell as flat as my savings account numbers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In all, this is what you get when you elect a person based on slick campaigning and media agendas.\u00a0 We knew before he was inaugurated that the race card would be played with gusto in order to force the hands of his opponents.\u00a0A tactic\u00a0that embittered many independents.\u00a0 We knew that if you had coached a season of little league baseball, you had more leadership experience than Barrack Obama had.\u00a0 But he got in anyway, in no small part because of\u00a0the continually dismal track record of Senator McCain when it comes to presidential runs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But it is what it is.\u00a0 He\u2019s the president, and with each passing day it grows clearer that he is losing control.\u00a0 He can still regain it, of course.\u00a0 But leadership must be learned, and at the end of the day, some have it and some don\u2019t.\u00a0 Reagan, Clinton, Roosevelt, Truman \u2013 like\u2019em or hate\u2019em, had leadership.\u00a0 They got things done.\u00a0 You may disagree with their agendas, but they got their agendas through.\u00a0 Folks like to compare Obama\u2019s numbers with Reagan\u2019s numbers of the same time period.\u00a0 But for all the angst of 1982, nobody doubted that Reagan could lead.\u00a0 Just getting his budge through a hostile congress proved that.\u00a0They simply doubted where his leadership was taking us.\u00a0 1984 showed they decided it took us in the right direction. <\/p>\n

Those who can\u2019t lead on the other hand \u2013\u00a0Ford, Carter, GHW Bush \u2013\u00a0eventually fall by the wayside and are forgotten by history.\u00a0 For more than anything, the office of the President is really Leader in Chief.\u00a0 Something I have a feeling President Obama is only now beginning to realize.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Henry IV, Part 2; Act 3 America\u2019s President, one President Barack Obama, is having troubles.\u00a0 Poll numbers are down, general pessimism is up, and a growing number of Americans are starting to get the sneaky feeling that President Obama doesn\u2019t know what he is doing.\u00a0 This comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAmerica's Novice in Chief smells the coffee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 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